Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Yup, you're in a strange position, all right. You're in love with a girl who is no more, jealous of a boy who's gone forever. Even so, this emotion you're feeling is more real, and more intensely painful, than anything you've ever felt before. And there's no way out. No possibility of finding an exit. You've wandered into a labyrinth of time, and the biggest problem of all is that you have no desire at all to get out. Am I right?

How unfortunate it is for man that he had to learn from a crow that one learns from each others' misfortune to survive.

The Very Best of Sheryl Crow.

Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.