The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Listening is one of the forms of love.