It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.
It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
Necessity is the author of change.
Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.
Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.