First Phone Call from Heaven

by Mitch Albom

The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby’s birth, a couple engaged, a tragic accident on a late-night highway—most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of ringing.

Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Desire sets our compass, real life steers our course.