Things can get good again. Even things like a marriage.

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.

He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.

Better to stop one paddle short than one too far.

Someone once said that marriage is like standing in a corridor lined with doors. You go off through your door, he goes through his, but at the end of the day you have to come back to the corridor, touch base, hold hands, because through every door are more doors, and beyond them, more again, and if you both go through too many without coming back to the corridor, you may never find your way back.

Develop morning rituals that remind you to connect.