It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"