“A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child”

“We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep patterns carry a message. Even the sulky belligerence of a teen is an attempt to convey a message. Everything the child does says something to the person who is willing to take the time to listen carefully.”

“.Such power, and carried with such careless grace. Howthat must burden him.”

“...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.”

“The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.”

“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”