Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

Believing takes practice.

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.