My husband-to-be helped his aunt take the furniture of her boyfriend's home to a charity after the gentleman had passed away. She asked him if we still needed anything for our new life, and he told her that we had everything but a bedroom set. She graciously gave him the master bedroom set from the home.
The problem was that the poor man had died on the mattress, and I wanted to replace it with a new mattress, with my next paycheck. I really didn't want to sleep on a bed that someone had died in.
My mother-in-law-to-be heard the story. She urged me not to be silly and to use the perfectly good mattress instead of spending the money on a new one.
"There is no simple theological answer to pain; the answer is a relationship with God in the midst of pain."
Noah was standing at the gangplank checking off the pairs of animals when he saw three camels trying to get on board.
"Nobody is more full of hope than a mom who places items on the stairs for her family members to carry up."
My wife and I were newly married and I was trying to impress her with my technical expertise.