Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
03410 – Faith and Light
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03388 – Show Up!
I decided that the single most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
03374 – Want to Change?
The willingness to change comes when the pain of staying where you are is too great.
03350 – Dangerous World
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
03294 – Love is Who We Are
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
03021 – Be Kind!
It's better to be kind than to be right.
03007 – Sufficient Grace
Grace will be sufficient for whatever lies ahead.
02922 – Redwood Trees
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
02854 – The Sword of Truth
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
02661 – True Friends: Miracles
Maybe we don't find a lot of answers to life's tougher questions, but if we find a few true friends, that's even better. They help you see who you truly are, which is not always the loveliest possible version of yourself, but then comes the greatest miracle of...