When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.
We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.
Our lives disappear, even as we live them.
If you feel lucky, then you are.
It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.
Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.
God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.