Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.