Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing
Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
My mother says I have boring percussion.
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.