Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

by Mitch Albom

And that, Chika, was the beginning of providence moving our lives together, or the continuance of it, I should say, since the Lord doesn’t get ideas partway through a life. * * *

There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.

Sometimes life throws a saddle on you before you are ready to run.

I would like to tell you how that felt, but it is too big for words.