The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).