Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.