However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?'

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

God never gives us more than what we can carry.