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I once saw God’s mercy as patient, benevolent tolerance, a kind of grudging forgiveness, but now mercy has become for me God’s very self-understanding , a loving allowing, a willing breaking of the rules by the One who made the rules—a wink and a smile, a firm and joyful taking of our hand while we clutch at our sins and gaze at God in desire and... See more

the only times i truly suffer are when story comes in: a mental narrative about what happened, about myself or others, happy memories of the past, vague fears of the future. that’s easy to get stuck in, and it never fails to catch me unaware.

but sensation fades. stories linger. only one of them is real.

Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.

“When we are fiercely independent and self-sufficient, our disappointments loom large because we have nothing else to focus on.”

Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a foundational belief about the world. https://t.co/9gfnaeAPqH