Spring gets you every time. Every year it sucks me in, but then, I’m easy—a few cool blue skies, new grass, wildflowers, and I’m in love.
02648 – It’s Spring!
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02625 – Want Loving Feelings? Do Loving Things
Still, I know that if you want to have loving feelings, instead of doom and hatred, you do loving things—care for the lonely and sick, feed the hungry, welcome strangers, treat yourself gently, call an incredibly annoying relative just to say hello.
02624 – Grace
...and I can remember...that grace, which is love and help for the helpless, always, always bats last.
02588 – Learning Who You Are
In the third third of life...you discover that everything helps you learn who you are, and that this is why we are here. You roll your eyes at yourself more gently. You sigh and go make yourself a cup of tea.
02453 – Monkeys vs. Circuses
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town. from Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
02303 – This Has Set Me Free
I know two things now that I didn’t at 30: That when we get to heaven, we will discover that the appearance of our butts and our skin was 127th on the list of what mattered on this earth. And that I am not going to live forever. Knowing these things has set me free.
02285 – Don’t Compare!
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
02122 – Wait & Watch & Work
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
01989 – Lighthouses Just Shine
Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
01862 – The Light Always Returns
Don’t give up on truth and beauty and justice, no matter the headlines, no matter how dire things seem. The light always returns - always, always, always.