How do you prove to a skeptic that God exists? How do you prove to your shadow that the sun exists?
Perhaps, because life is but a moment, it is insignificant, or, perhaps, because life is but a moment, it is momentous.
You spend years learning what's important and one heart-stopping moment learning what's more important.
It is said that you only get one life. Actually, you get only one birth and one death. How many lives you squeeze in is up to you.
Love can be a conversation about nothing, or it can be a quiet comfort in each other's presence that is about everything.
What we see in an old family photo is not just a still moment in time but a moment when there was still time.
Ah, nostalgia! We live our days in the glare of the sun and recall them in the glow of the moon.
from Reflections
There are things the human mind cannot comprehend, among them the boundlessness of possibility. Only by accepting this do we free our hopes from the limits of our understanding. Why confine our consolations to some narrow theology when every miracle we could wish for lies in the unknowability that is God? The answer to the eternal "Why" lies in the three words, "We Don't Know" and in those words lies all hope.
If there's one thing you learn in a long life, it is that God will eventually do what is necessary to capture your attention.
Religion and science have this in common, that each believes in a mystical, unseen Trinity, invisibly controlling the universe. For religion, it is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For science, it is Dark Mass, Dark Energy and Dark Flow.
Life is more a basket of kumquats than a bowl of cherries -- the task you kumquat finish, the promise you kumquat keep, the apology you kumquat find the words for.
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Disclaimer: The following applies to marriages generally and not to any particular marriage I might be involved in. 😉
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Marriage: the unforeseen consequence of a wedding.
Marriage: a state of bliss in which if one partner dies unexpectedly, the other is the prime suspect.
Marriage: the process by which, after two become one, they decide which one.
Marriage: a partnership formed with no clear objective and sustained by the absence of any clear alternative.
It is a shame to keep a deep dark secret from the one person who might most help you to bear its burden.
It is sad when a relationship survives all the reasons it could never work only to fail because you neglected the reasons it should have worked.
There are words said in the heat of argument that you cannot unsay. You must trust in love's ability to unhear.
The ultimate test of love is a test of forgiveness, and no one so tested will ever ask again, "What is love?"
A summer vacation seems wonderful in prospect, but then, in the actual experience, it often diminishes to the point of becoming a series of irritations, until, eventually, it retreats into memory and, voila, becomes wonderful again.
And therein lies the question -- if you look forward to your vacation with great anticipation and remember it with wistful pleasure, does it really matter if you didn't actually enjoy it?
