because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.