Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
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.
You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.
The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
. . . I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.