More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“These things have a way of working themselves out, Sam. No use rocking the boat—you only take on more water.”
Everything God does is for a reason, Sam; every cross we bear is an opportunity.
Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren’t going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We’d be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we’d become, or live with regret and disappointment. My reality was that I was not going to live some extraordinary life, as my mother so fervently believed, and prayed for.
But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.
For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.
