"What is more cheerful than an open wood fire ...."

“What is more cheerful than an open wood fire?  Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood?  Those are the ghosts of the robins and blackbirds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last spring.”

"God gives every bird his worm ...."

"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

"Where hearts are true, ..."

"Where hearts are true, few words will do."

"Faith is the bird ...."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

... I'm fuzzy and you're by my side

I don’t care if I’m belly-up, I’m fuzzy and you’re by my side.

"... and the woods would be very silent ...."

“... the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

"There is so much good ...."

There is so much good in the worst of us,

And so much bad in the best of us,

That it hardly becomes any of us

To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Hoch

"He is a free spirit ...."

“He is a free spirit, and free spirits always find their way home.”

... we are togetherness

I don’t care if they say three’s a crowd, we are togetherness.

"... the most profound religious life is ...."

“... the most profound religious life is found by being in the world yet in each moment doing our best to align ourselves with heaven, with the will of God...

How do we know that we are following the will of God?  One knows instinctively; there is a sense of peace, balance, and fullness, an unhurriedness.”

"... this is the business of any artist ...."

“... this is the business of any artist – and we all are artists of life – to give form to the will of God.  Everyone needs to ask how he or she can make a container to hold the splendor of God within life.”

... what's at the end for me

I don’t care if I’m kept waiting, I only have eyes for what ‘s at the end for me.