So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.