Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

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.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being