How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?
Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.
The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.
I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.
A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems. ) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.
The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit. " Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons. " It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?