I hope you can find the healing power in grieving.
Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.
And thus unknowingly, Dor began to serve his sentence – to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time.
In the beginning, there was a question. In the end, the question gets answered. God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it’s all one song – one same, wonderful, human song. I am in love with hope.
Dear friends. I’m dying. “Don’t be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That’s the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, ‘We who are born, are born to die.
Do you really think we’ll meet again one day? “Don’t you?
If we love something and somebody so much, how much – if at all – are they ever really gone from our hearts?
In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord.
Mitch, that’s what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.
Mitch, if you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
We are, as we die, who we most were in life...
These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
No life is a waste .
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.
And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too – even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy.
No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person that I’m trying to become.
You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, Why not me?
Because there was a ghost involved, you may call this a ghost story. But what family isn’t a ghost story? Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
If you find one true friend in life, you’re richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you’re blessed.