...but if you have love enough to move mountains

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
—
Erich Fromm

let go

giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. sometimes it means you are strong enough to let go.

Palacio de Cristal, Madrid

plan for the week

wallpaper of my life

I am God.

a great number of them

“Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, and this will cure you: the heartfelt prayer of a good man works very powerfully. My brothers, if one of you strays away from the truth, and another brings him back to it, he may be sure that anyone who can bring back a sinner from the wrong way that he has taken will be saving a soul from death and covering up a great number of sins.” (James 5:16,19-20)

including with Him

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…the love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.
—
Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

in giving we recieve

This week's "To Do" list...

where all the cool kids hang out

Face of the Son

Oh Father, who art in heaven...

confession?

Not in spite of the truth. Because of it.

"Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see."...Chogyam Trungpa

Nouwen

The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds than to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them. The choice you face constantly is whether you are taking your wounds to your head or your heart.
-
Henri Nouwen

each man a monk

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
—
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

we are his words

Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’
—
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

lovely

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
—
Roald Dahl, The Twits

today

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind…let it be something good.
—
Unknown

rex

no matter how tough life is, it beats the alternative

God's love.

... and friends, too.