Jodie

“But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“but if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can’t wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can’t.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“I am not such a significant creature in God’s universe that it is my decisions alone that can change the destiny of another.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life