The Sky Beneath Us

by Fiona Valpy

life falls apart; and maybe some things can’t be mended, but perhaps they can be reshaped into something even more beautiful.

‘My mother often used to say that life is not about finding yourself – it’s about creating the person you want to be.

we have to accept there are some things we can’t understand, and in the end our lives will be defined by what we do with that fact – how we accept it and pick ourselves up, facing reality and

adapting to it, rather than denying o...

what we’re all doing in this life – coming and going, loving and losing, living and dying. In the end, we’re all just walking each other home, aren’t we? Finding our way along the paths of life, sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of others, until we find a way to let go. This is what our faith is for. Because this is where all paths eventually lead.’