This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.

And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.