What kinds of things occupied Him up there in heaven and kept Him from answering our prayers? He probably didn’t sleep or eat, so what, then? What kinds of things were more important to Him than us, His very own children?

more an emblem of motherhood than motherhood itself.

Pidgin was the language of amusement and relaxation, but it was also the language of conflict.

I wondered about the Bible as a whole. Maybe the entire thing was just a history of a certain culture, specific to that particular time and place, which made it hard for us now to understand, and which maybe even made it not applicable for us today.

Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.

And to worry over it would be like pouring water over stone. The stone just gets wet. Eventually it dries. But nothing changes.”

“Maybe sometimes it’s worth it to go around in circles. Maybe you learn more lessons that way.”

The Church is the oldest and most successful business known to man, because it knows not only how to recruit customers but also how to control them with things like doctrines and words like ‘abomination.’

This must be married life: to sit in church with so much unrest, but at home carry on the pretense that all is just as it should be.