And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".
Someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. You say you should have
But then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river...
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your ‘spiritual...
There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A...
The rain rapped the roof like mallets. The thunder was a tympani drum. Downstairs the raiders set fire to the refectory and the flames crackled like a hundred castanets. Those few who had not fled the...
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.
Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.
Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.
Once, he had prided himself on keeping time with water. But man invents nothing God did not create first.
Once you have a sister, you never stop having her, even if you can no longer see or touch her.
None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.
No life is a waste .
My old professor, meanwhile, was stunned by the normalcy of the day around him. Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?But the world did not stop, it took no notice at allMo...
My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled...
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.