Are anybody's parents typical?

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.