When we retire, I hope we realize we’ve been doing so wonderful things all along.
All tagged love
What if death wasn’t certain?
The heaviest truth of human life is that death is certain. But the alternative, if death were uncertain, might be even heavier.
How To Grow Our Hearts
Love is out there waiting to fill us up.
To my old friends
I think of you more than I let on.
Days Like These: A Father’s Wish
I wish for another day where we celebrate at a table more crowded than the year before.
15 Slow Seconds Is Enough
This is your excuse to get back to the here and now.
I’ve fallen in love, again and again.
Every new season brings a fresh chance to fall in love again. Over the years, my marriage has taught me that love deepens and renews itself, unveiling its beauty time and again.
Love Strikes Back
When it seems all we can do is acquiesce to rage and cruelty, love strikes back.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
How do we make a promise to be around, when we must contend with an unpredictable life?
When we linger, we are showing love in the most honest of ways.
To be held is to be loved.
A heaven on the other side of the door.
My love needs to be big enough so that my sons never have to fight for it. It must be infinite.
Kindness, as it’s practiced in Detroit, is different.
The power of listening is that it creates bonds of love and ultimately, goodness.
Life can transform us from selfish into something more gracious - if we let it.
As your father, I promise to love you unconditionally and help you become good people.
The world of children, I’ve found, can be a remarkable window into the world of adults. So much of our behavior, motivations, fears, and hopes end up being so similar, at their core, to those of children.
Little kids want to be seen, because they know intuitively that to be seen is to be loved. And adults, it seems, are not that different.
My twenties were starved, not lonely.