Strangers and Sojourners

by Michael D. O'Brien

desk in Papa’s study: In time of crisis it is better to do any intelligent thing quickly than to hesitate, searching for the ideal.

mercy, but never let them have any power over

why. But I know this; the healing begins when you abandon your demands for love and choose instead to give love, no matter what the cost. Madness, isn’t it? But a madness that

see that it is not so much a question of finding the right place, the right time, the ideal marriage. Neither life nor happiness hinges upon such things. It is wholly within. It is response to what is given. It is choice.

nothing quite as blind as a man who thinks he’s got superior sight. He never learns to look into

beyond things. He sees only his eyes, his own seeing.” “What are

a lie”, his grandmother was saying now. “It’s bankrupt and you have to call its bluff. Oh, it has power all right, a terrible, terrible power to destroy, but it can never create. Only love

and raised in Canada.” “Like being an alien