“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Incompatible” marriages
Tough going…
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
— Paula Coelho (The Alchemist)
When the going gets tough…
Homily for the Baptism of the Lord
Family values
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” St. John Paul II
What kids MOST need from their parents!
God’s plan
“He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of the life we had been meant to lead all along.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Openness to God’s plan
Acts of kindness
“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.” Winnie the Pooh