“Yes, there are ruins in everyone’s life, and no one is immune from feelings of having to settle for some kind of second class. But finally it is a kind of comfort and relief to know that we are ordinary people in the human family–uncommon common people especially loved by God. After a time of vainly trying to anesthetize our pain, we may be ready to enter our sorrow.”
–Robert Raines, A Time to Live (Dutton, 1997), p. 38
