Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.