Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed...

If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
right now, right here.

The Faces of Jesus

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.