October in the Earth

by Olivia Hawker

No one ever tells you how easy it is to up and go. Just like that, I was free.

Once, I’d thought my life important and whole. The realization that I had only ever been small and broken set my head to spinning.

Maybe there isn’t much difference between fear and rejoicing. Maybe it’s all the same wellspring of awe. Maybe we decide whether the water tastes of joy or despair once it’s in our mouths and we’re already swallowing it down.

and I swear I felt a greater sense of holiness in that hard, stinking jungle than I ever felt at one of Irving’s meetings.

If you want to find what’s really sacred, you got to get out into the places where the Savior dwelled. And He never hung around listening to no preacher; I remember that much from my Christian days.”

It’s love that reminds us who we really are. It’s love that holds the world together, even when everything tries its best to fall apart.”