“I’ll persuade you to tell me all about what kind of waters you’ve muddled your feet in, and I’ll tell you about the trouble I’ve led skirmishes into for the past decade.”

“When someone sees something old they think it’s worth more than something new.” I’ll give them that. The history, imagining who might have stood or sat or eaten at a piece hundreds of years before gives it a value you can’t hang a price tag on, but I’ve never thought it was ten times the value of a new piece. I think some things are better when new, then you can grow old together.”

“I’m not stonewalling; I’m just not into talking about religion, I told you that.”

“I think all people have things in their past they need forgiveness for. In their present as well. And they need to be extended grace for what they regret.”

“Its not that he didn’t appreciate his dishwasher. There was something about washing dishes by hand that was therapeutic, as if he could wash away the regrets of the past and photos he wanted to wipe out of his memory forever.”

“On your heart, what are you hearing from God?”

“Have you ever told him how you feel? What he meant to you, what he probably still means to you?”