Real sexy is letting your true self come out of hiding and find love in safe places.

She needs to be told that she’s good. Mary didn’t ask me to repent. She asked me to rest.

Why can’t I appreciate anything I’m given?

Pain and love are places I must be brave enough to visit. My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there—because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. I was born to do this. I am a Warrior.

What I’ve found is a representative of me who’s just tough and trendy enough to survive high school. The magic of sending my representative is that the real me cannot be hurt. She is safe inside. So, as someone else, I have finally arrived. I hold my breath all day at school, and then when I get home I relax with pounds of food and the toilet. This

His whole life has been a retreat into his body. My whole life has been a retreat into my mind. Is this why it is so hard for us to love each other? Because he understands love to be the joining of two bodies, and I believe love to be the joining of two minds? Neither of us is bringing our whole self to the other. Maybe we are exiled from each othe

But I know the moon’s always there, too, waiting for its time to be seen. The day has to fall to make way for the night and the night has to surrender its place so the day can have its turn. This strikes me as a holy rhythm. I wonder if whatever created this rhythm of the tides and the sky and the sun and the moon has a holy rhythm for my life, too

I open the windows so the birds’ songs can remind me that what is about to happen was made by God and blessed by God and that any shame added to it is a lie.

faith is not a club to belong to, but a current to surrender to.