Don’t just wish for something. Prepare to receive it now.

The idea that He Would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can’t go along with it.

Mother of mine, you gave to me All of my life to do as please I owe everything I have to you Mother, sweet mother of mine. Mother of mine, when I was young you showed me the way things had to be done.
Without your love where would I be? Mother, sweet mother of mine. Mother you gave me happiness much more than words can say I’ll pray to the lord that He be with you Every night and every day. Mother of mine, now I’m grown And I can walk straight, all on my own I’ll like to give you what you gave to me.
Mother, sweet mother of mine.

As a withering flower is brought back to life by dewdrops that dawn pours into its begging petals, so her anxious heart was enlivened by his love and kindness.

Look at me, friend; study my face and read in it that which you want to know and which I cannot recite.

I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.

Life is double-sided; There’s a wrong side and a right; A sad side and a happy side, A black side and a bright. So if things look dark to you just change your thoughts about. Life will look quite different if you turn it, best side out.

I wish I could come in to you as my mother used to come to me in the many illnesses I used to have so freshly quiet and comforting, like sweet cool water, because I knew she loved me and bore me in her thought and I had no fear. Always a peace was laid then upon my restlessness.

“I am a tree grown in the shade, and today I stretched my branches to tremble in the light of love.”

In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums.