“Tell me what she’s like,” Ballard said. “Convince me she’s worth you risking your entire vocation over.” “What do you want to know? Height? Short. Hair color? Black.” “What do you see in her?” “She…she makes me laugh. I feel human with her. I don’t feel human very often, but I do with her.” “You are human.” “If I wasn’t sure I was human before, I am now. She makes me weak.” “That’s why they call this sacrament ‘reconciliation.’ Yes, God and sinner are reconciled. But more than that, man is reconciled with himself. We are the most ourselves when giving our confession. ‘God have mercy on me a
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