"So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this wil...

"So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging -- the old 'bod' over half a century has had hard use; it won't take what it did a few years ago -- but that I can also grow in maturity, where the experience which can be acquired only through chronology will teach me how to be more aware, more open, unafraid to be vulnerable, involved, committed, to accept disagreement without feeling threatened (repeat and underline this one), to understand I cannot take myself seriously until I stop taking myself seriously -- to be, in fact, a true adult."

- Madeleine L'Engle (The Crosswick Journals, Book One: A Circle of Quiet)

Amen.