'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother was battling her ovarian cancer. In a way, it brought our family together and opened up relationships and a closeness that was not felt before her diagnosis.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.
I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
Gospel talks about life's struggles, but you always feel like it recognizes these struggles and that you can overcome them.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Listen to 100 of my sermons, and 80 or 90 of them will be about overcoming our struggles and the lessons God teaches us in valleys he allows us to enter.
