“Only you can change things. It has to come from you.”
― How Not to Die Alone
― How Not to Die Alone
“What a wonderful thing it is to look out over so many of you who have given up your time to be here today. None of us can be sure at the start of our lives just how they will end, or what our journey there will be like, but if we were to know for sure that our final moments would be in the company of good souls such as yourselves, we would surely be comforted.”
― How Not to Die Alone
― How Not to Die Alone
“He stayed there, quiet now, feeling a pure and strangely joyful pain wash over him, knowing that as much as it hurt, it was something he had to accept, a winter before the spring, letting its ice freeze and fracture his heart before it could heal.”
― How Not to Die Alone
― How Not to Die Alone
“In the end, it was all light and dark, loud and soft. I knew nothing but the memory of those I loved. One, a friend. The other, unfinished. And that alone is what I took with me into the next life. But I watched, warm and bright and high above. Just as he promised.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
“We don’t have to understand someone’s pain to make room for it. We don’t have to know what someone is carrying to decide whether or not their emotional state is justified. We can just be glad that they’re with us and let them know that they’re safe as they are, baggage and all.”
― Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
― Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
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