The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing
Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.
My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few.
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
God is not going to send us a bill for solar energy, but the gas industry will.