That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.