I didn’t feel comfortable inside the endlessness of it. I am the kind of writer who believes in taking the time I need to come up with something worth saying. I work quickly but I don’t always work - and that’s because the thoughts are in my slow cooker and the timer hasn’t gone off. Once the timer goes off, I know exactly what I will serve on the... See more

Mercy is one of the higher values. Like forgiveness and compassion and love, mercy depends on much more than the letter of the law. It is imaginative. It imagines the situation of the one who is in need of mercy - even if that person doesn’t know it.