She couldn't make it untrue.
My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection. ” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it. ’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.
Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.