I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Is the gift of life not also accompanied by the gift of pain? For without the latter we could not fully appreciate the former, and therefore both would be squandered.