Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

There's always someone who is trying to help.

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.