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As her father would say, “Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.”
“Child, the past is past, and furthermore it’s different every time I remember it. I’ll tell you about the future, the one you will make.”
The grandmother is certain of a few things: A tale that leaves its imprint on a listener tells the truth about how the world lives, and so, unavoidably, it is about families, their victories and wounds, and their departed, including the ghosts who linger; it must offer instructions for living in God’s realm, where joy never spares one from sorrow. A good story goes beyond what a forgiving God cares to do: it reconciles families and unburdens them of secrets whose bond is stronger than blood. But in their revealing, as in their keeping, secrets can tear a family apart.
All water is connected, and her world is limitless. He stands at the limits of his.
“Small things make a big difference, Digby. God is in the small things.”
A daughter has an open door into a father’s heart.”
You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.
Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.
“Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!”
“The minutes we spend watching the waves don’t count against our life spans,”
We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.
The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they’re all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.
