Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?