restoration

“Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you can come up with will be horseshit. God tells Job, who wants an explanation for all his troubles, ‘You wouldn’t understand.’ [...] 

“But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. We find God in our human lives, and that includes the suffering. I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.”

                     - Anne Lamott 

kerouac will always get me.

lately.

image found here

I stumbled across this photo on one of my pinterest boards tonight, and it spoke to me like nothing else. Things have been hard lately y'all. Every day is a constant struggle, and my only thought is that I need grace. I need it for myself. I need to show it to others. This quote doesn't speak directly of grace, but I feel that when you have grace and can show it to others, you are able to live without hate, without whim, without jealousy and without fear. 

A Favorite Quote

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” 

― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets