The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven, Lessons for the Living

by Laura Lynne Jackson

But my teenage romance was also an important life lesson: loving someone and feeling that he or she is your soul mate does not necessarily mean you are meant to be together forever.

Sometimes the end of a relationship isn’t a failure at all, but rather a release for both people so that they can travel on their own true paths. Some relationships are only meant to teach us lessons about love.

The choices we make—particularly every act of kindness—are greatly consequential. Our actions matter.

Our animals are alive. They are waiting for us. We will see them again.