"When my daughter was a toddler I read stories to her every night. Because of my desire to see her grow emotionally, mentally and spiritually, I tried to read new books to her on a regular basis. She resisted, wanting always to hear the same story, The Little Mouse, the Red Pipe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear, over and over again. One night, as I was reading the story to her, I got it: She wanted to stay with the same story because she knew how it would end. It was safe and comfortable for her to know in advance that the mouse did get the strawberry away from the big mean bear and managed to live happily ever after. Isn’t that the kind of ending we all want to know awaits us in the story of our lives? For most of us this is a lifelong lesson."

Dennis Merritt Jones, The Art Of Uncertainty (via intensifyit)

(Source: fluffynips, via intensifyit)