“It was sixty-one years after meeting Sam when Mary’s husband died. After, Mary felt a presence was coming into her life, but she couldn’t explain it. Then COVID hit, and Mary told her friends: ‘I’m either slipping quietly into the night, or I’m about to blow the roof off of this life.’”

“We all need to feel significant. What happens if we don’t? We’ve got lousy self-esteem. We’re beating ourselves up all the time. We’re telling ourselves nasty things about ourselves.”

My question, then, is how do we find the thing that helps us feel significant?

“I retired at 55. Best decision I ever made in my life. All my friends retired at 65. They waited until then to live their lives. All of them were dead within eight years.”

“My business life was firing on all cylinders, and that was amazing. Yet this rumination always persisted. My past felt like a heavy anchor. It was growing untenable. I knew, something had to give.”

“Out of the blue, my heart just started fluttering,” Lotti said. “Then a very clear voice came into my head, and I’ve never experienced anything like that before. And it said…”