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“Your vision means what you want it to mean. It will mean what you make it to mean.” I stared at her, baffled, perturbed. “Why would God send me a vision if it has no meaning other than what I give to it?” “What if the point of his sending it is to make you search yourself for the answer?”
“Your moment will come because you’ll make it come.”
“Why should we contain God any longer in our poor and narrow conceptions, which are so often no more than grandiose reflections of ourselves? Let us set him free.”
It’s always a marvel when one’s pain doesn’t settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.”
As we walked on, I told myself I would let Jesus have his hidden place that was his alone. We had our togetherness—why should we not have our separateness?
For a woman to birth something other than children and then mother it with the same sense of purpose, attention, and care came as an astonishment, even to me.
In the hidden forest in my chest, the trees slowly lost their leaves.
“To avoid a fear emboldens it,” she said. I said nothing. “All shall be well, child.” I reared up then. “Will it? You cannot know that! How can you know that?” “Oh, Ana, Ana. When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.”
“We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we’ll find the God that exists behind them.”
“What most sets you apart is the spirit in you that rebels and persists. It isn’t the largeness in you that matters most, it’s your passion to bring it forth.”
You don’t have to feel love for her. Only try to act with love.”
How does imagining new possibilities affect realities in the present?
If Jesus actually did have a wife, and history unfolded exactly the way it has, then she would be the most silenced woman in history and the woman most in need of a voice.
