At your funeral or at your 90th birthday they're not going to say, "I am so grateful to him or her because he/she was happy." Living lovingly toward others will definitely have moments of happiness, but one might do well to understand that it is not the happy moments...
A few years ago, my son attended the funeral of a classmate whose life had been tragically cut short by an automobile accident. Though Stan did not know him very well as they were both relatively new to the school, he said the boy was “soft-spoken and very kind.”...
If our lives were a long piece of fabric with our baptism on one end and our funeral on another, and we don't know the distance between the two, then Ash Wednesday is a time when that fabric is pinched in the middle and the ends are held up so that our baptism in the...