Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.