Tabitha

“ We have a progressive movement that seems to kick down every societal boundary that’s been built over the years, and then demands we put our own back up—and defend them alone.” — Freya India in an interview with N.S. Lyons https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/the-self-and-the-soul-a-dialogue?r=bfch&utm_medium=ios

“On this day of each year, Humanity wakes with the awakening of Spring, and stands crying below the suffering Nazarene” — Kahlil Gibran

“One of the most pervasive myths about writing is that specificity is limiting. It’s just the opposite. You might think that a poem about love or truth or freedom—a large abstraction—would reach more people if it were written with universality in mind. But if your goal is to speak to everyone, and to remove particulars from the piece because others

Who are our debtors, literal or figurative, and what do they owe us? Most of us could probably come up with a list. The verse makes us God’s debtors. What do we owe Him? Everything. More than we can conceive of. But a debt is an obligation. The prophets make it clear that sacrifice does not satisfy the Lord’s requirement of us. Doing justice and