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wanted us to understand the simultaneous intimacy and enormity of the call to love God and love one’s neighbor and the implications that had not just for ourselves but also for all kinds of neighbors, for the soil, for the ecosystem, and indeed for the world.
I imagine Jesus out for a hike, Jesus catching his breath in the shade of a boulder, Jesus listening to the birdsong and the howls of the beasts and the whoosh of the wind instead of the pleas of the ailing and the wails of the desperate and the nattering of his feckless disciples, Jesus collecting himself away from the endless demands of his everyday life and the people around him, Jesus resting. If Jesus himself needed the respite of the wilderness, why not us? For all our fears of the alleged wilds, perhaps we all sometimes need some space and a radical change in scenery to reflect and
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I longed to be respected, but I settled for being useful—and some days I fooled myself into thinking these were the same.
“our bodily experience is the fundamental realm of the experience of God.”
“What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. / You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”
each of us needs at least one person, one consistent and stubborn and faithful person, who will insistently name those truths we aren’t yet convinced of but that we desperately want to believe.
To forgive is to declare that you will not be bound by that harm, by that hatred, she explained: “The only people it lets off the hook are the ones who are doing the forgiving.” Forgiveness, in other words, means freedom for the one who has been hurt, not the one who did the hurting.
