I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections, but overwhelmingly in spite of them.
Tracks
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
(Source: quotes-shape-us)
May God the Father bless you, God the Son heal you, God the Holy Spirit companion you. May God the holy and undivided Trinity guard your body, save your soul, and in the fullness of time bring you to that heavenly country where safely we will enjoy God and one another forever.
Still, Lauren Winner
May God the Father bless you, God the Son heal you, God the Holy Spirit companion you. May God the holy and undivided Trinity guard your body, save your soul, and in the fullness of time bring you to that heavenly country where safely we will enjoy God and one another forever.
Whole Living magazine, June 2012
Time you enjoy wasting isn’t wasted time.
by Brennan Manning
…living out of the center has taught me that every failure succeeds in some way. It provides the opportunity not only to humble the self, but also to be with the failure of others. If your life or mine were an untarnished success story, an unbroken upward spiral toward holiness, we might never come to understand the human heart.
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.
(Source: kari-shma)
I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.
(Source: faeriefables)
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
I think of this often at work. It is a bittersweet realization that I find both internally comforting as well as inauthentically disturbing.
(Source: dreamsinthyme)
