Emotion is what turns an object into a memento, an event into a happening, and a person into the love of your life.
03900 – Considering Our Emotions
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03879 – Emotion is the Key
Emotion is what turns an object into a memento, an event into a happening, and a person into the love of your life.
03468 – Beautiful People Don’t Just Happen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with...
03394 – No Matter What
We knew that the promise has never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is. from Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings
03389 – The Moment Before it Happens
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is...
03168 – God Speaking
If God speaks to us at all...then I think that he speaks to us largely through what happens to us. from Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation----------------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: If God speaks to us at all...then I think that God...
02949 – Not a Perfect Ending
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's...
02365 – Needing God in the Darkness
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when the good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been...
02321 – Becoming Dangerous?
If all the things you are afraid will happen, happen... and you survive it... You become dangerous.
02258 – Advent: Extraordinary Moment
The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.