Healing
“The part of yourself that you’re holding back from the relationship, is the part of yourself that needs to be healed in the relationship.”
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. #eagertolove
I believe that Christianity as a religion has profound gifts to offer the world, but that can only happen when Christians are willing to be in a humble and open-hearted dialogue with everyone else. I am less interested in defending the Christian religion or some notion of Christendom than I am in allowing the truth of Christ’s message to penetrate ... See more
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
“How did you keep from breaking?”
There was a tension in my chest. ...my question was not about her, I knew that; it was about my own stuckness.
“I broke,” she said. “That is how I kept from breaking.”
The only way through is down
“Through the greatness and the beauty of creatures one comes to know by analogy their maker”
Richard Rohr • Infinite God, Infinite Life
“Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
―
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
―
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love and Do What You Want
Love and Do What You Want: Augustine’s Pneumatological Love Ethics
I didn’t know how old Martha was. Maybe she was 11. Maybe she was 27. Probably something in between. Before she came to live with me, she lived in Puerto Rico, she had two puppies, she was cared for by someone who house trained her and also made her afraid of newspapers. Martha was loving and enigmatic. Independent. When we lived in Brooklyn, she w... See more