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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
my goal was to challenge readers on the definition of forgiveness and what it truly means to
forgive.
“forgiveness…is like a door. You can open yourself up to it
close yourself off from it at any time.” Forgiveness can be a powerful tool. It can loosen the knots we often tie ourselves. It can bandage up wounds, large and small. It can heal traumas, visible and invisible. But withholding forgiveness can also cause more harm than good. It can tighten its grip on you and keep you bound to the person who hurt you.
challenge you to define forgiveness for yourself. Because forgiveness is for you, and you deserve to be free.
my love for her started much later, when the reality of her conception had faded enough for me to see only her, when I realized that she, like me, was a survivor.
no one moment but an aggregation of moments, many of them happening because of her vulnerability:
These features—his features—are all I remember about her father.
And yet, what I didn’t know about him I see in her, like a window into a stranger’s soul.
Talent you’re born with, not taught.
One thing is for sure: she is all him and none of me. And that single thought terrifies me.
Being a mother is a lesson in impossible love.
In Maine, the pain is as distant as a star. Trauma doesn’t punch a clock, but you can set your watch by it. It works overtime most of the time. But it can be smothered like a whisper in a storm.
From David, the king of the Jews, to Jacob, the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. The symbolism abounds.”
“Forgiveness takes more strength than anger.”
“If you love the heavenly aurora, wait until you find your earthly one.”
fascinated by the idea that a phenomenon of such extraordinary beauty and grace could be replicated in human form.
The present is the key to the past.
Most of the time, death sneaks up on us like a sneeze.
Anger is easier to handle than grief, and I allow a little to seep out from the crack of my resolve.
It is up to us to give reason and purpose to events that would otherwise be meaningless and arbitrary.
Time to remind myself to make the most of this, despite my push to get back to my normal. Time to watch him live.
Navier-Stokes equation is one of the Millennium Problems, seven of the most intriguing unsolved mathematical problems in the world.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Longfellow advised the importance of seizing the day and living a full life by seeking constant improvement and progress. But he also acknowledged that the road is not without struggle, and one must practice patience.
It didn’t seem fair to take a life for the sins of the father.
Trauma changes you, hardens you, leaves its scars.
loquaciousness.
Love doesn’t die. Neither do memories.
Time, in a way it has never been and may never be again, is ours.
“When all is done,” Dad is telling me that death cannot conquer his
soul. I decide right then that I will attempt my own acceptance.
Her eyes are soft and open like a book begging to be read.
Time is a measure of change, and
change can only happen in forward motion.
“Love is never complicated. The circumstances are but never the love.”
Sometimes our dreams are manifestations of what our heart wants.”
“What did you want to hear the most?” Her eyes burrow into mine. “I love you.”
I’ve never heard those words myself.
“Uranus.”
ninety-eight degrees.
Jacob compared Sara to the planet Uranus! Ths planet has been spinning on its side for thousands of years! So if that planet can withstand that contact Sara has too - GREAT CORRELATION!!
“That’s you, Sara. You took a hit, it knocked you off your axis, but you keep spinning no matter what.”
The rise of a promise not worth the fall of reality.
Leaves of Grass.
Circumstance is obligation. It’s stiff and hard. You’ll know the difference.”
“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to us turns out to be the best thing.”
Forgiveness, I’ve learned, is like a door. You can open yourself up to it or close yourself off from it at any time. We can’t rewrite history or change the outcome. Life is
a series of choices. And we live in and with those choices we make.
