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That is part of the beauty of all literature.
You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
We desire rich relationships where we can live without masks and love without fear. Places where we are truly known and because of our brokenness—not in spite of it—we are cherished.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. —JAMES BALDWIN, GIOVANNI’S ROOM
However loud this cry, a duality also exists, just as hidden and puzzling. We desperately want to
belong, yet at the same time we yearn for independence. We want to prove to ourselves and those around us we can survive on our own. That we are not dependent. We are free. To rely on someone else is weakness, this conflicting voice utters. The ears of our spirits listen. These two voices are innate. The first humans lost their native divine dependence when they consumed knowledge from a tree.
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. —JOHN F. KENNEDY
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair and confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, this is the friend who cares. —HENRI NOUWEN, OUT OF SOLITUDE
of us will ever agree on everything, but this isn’t about what we believe. It’s about how we love. And it’s about how we surrender to the greater work of unity.
never before our generation has a group of people been able to voice their beliefs so loud and clear. Some see this as progress. I see it as subtle (and at times, not so subtle) expressions of selfishness. Where in our proclamations and defenses of our personal beliefs do we find humility? Where do we find surrender? We don’t.
Commitment, at its root, is the idea of sending a pledge of faith into the future.
sometimes questions are more important than the answers.
