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This was the whole point of my time with Reb and Henry: not the conclusion, but the search, the study, the journey to belief. You can’t fit the Lord in a box. But you can gather stories, traditions, wisdom, and in time, you needn’t lower the shelf; God is already nearer to thee.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

Would you want the whole world to look alike? No. The genius of life is its variety… it’s like being a musician. If you found THE note, and you kept hitting that note all the time, you would go nuts. It’s the blending of the different notes that makes the music.

I think people expect too much from marriage today. They expect perfection. Buy that is not the human experience. Like Sarah says, 20 good minutes here, 40 good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren’t so great, you don’t junk the whole thing. It’s ok to have any argument. It’s ok that the other one nudges you, bothers you. It’s part of being close to someone.

Remember the only difference between “marital” and “martial” is here you put the “I.” He also, on passion, told the joke about a man who complains to his doctor that his wife, when angry, gets historical. You mean hysterical, the doctor says. No, historical, she lists the history of every wrong thing I’ve ever done!

When we spoke a few weeks ago, I asked you what you thought about your parents…
You said they weren’t perfect but…
But they don’t need improvement.
This is very insightful because it means you are willing to accept people as they are. Nobody is perfect. Not even mom and dad. That’s ok.