You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.