I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured. But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face....
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Blessed are the agnostics. Blessed are they who doubt. Those who aren’t sure, who can still be surprised. Blessed are they who are spiritually impoverished and therefore not so certain about everything that they no longer take in new information. Blessed are those who...
Think of a single mother who goes to the Church or the Parish, and tells the secretary: I WANT TO BAPTIZE MY SON." And the attendant says: No, you can't, because you're not married.. Let's keep in mind that this mother had the courage to continue with a pregnancy, and...
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.They move on. They move away.The moments that used to define them are covered bymoments of their own accomplishments.It is not until much later, thatchildren understand;their stories and all their...
When I first started preaching, my mother told me that if I hadn’t struck oil in 20 minutes to quit boring. I always did what my mother told me to do.
People who know God well—mystics, hermits, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found as an abusive father or a tyrannical mother; God is always a lover greater than we dared hope for. How different from the “account...
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources;...
I believe in the love of mothers. It is stronger than steel and softer than down. It closes wounds and melts disappointments. But I believe that this love, even at its best, is only a shadow of the love of God. The most beautiful sight in the world is a mother who...