In your dark night, I urge you to hold to your faith, to embrace hope, and to bear your love before you like a burning candle, for I promise that it will light your way.
And whether you believe in miracles or not, I can guarantee that you will experience one. It may not be the miracle you've prayed for. God probably won't undo what's been done. The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning adn be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.
Jesus suffered through the dark night and death and on the third day he rose again through the grace of his loving father. For each of us, the sun sets and the sun also rises and through the grace of our Lord we can endure our own dark night and rise to the dawning of a new day and rejoice. p 195
I'd hoped for a kind of miracle that day, hoped for something like the joy that had filled me on the Sunday before when my father had stood and delivered his brief, miraculous sermon. And if not joy then peace at last. But as we entered the gate of the cemetery I felt only grief knifing deep into my spirit. p. 267
I know from my studies and from my life that there is no such things as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of waht happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.... p. 306
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