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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
"I dreamt [...]
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures
...
Last night as I slept,
I dreamt [...]
that it was God I had
here inside my heart"
— Antonio Machado
(Translation Robert Bly)
In the Bible, God would have saved Sodom and Gomorrah, but there were fewer than ten just men...
"That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow."
— Saadi Shirazi
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
— Montaigne
Helping is rewarding 😇
Getting in the holiday spirit having just returned from an elderly neighbor's home, where I helped put up their #ChristmasTree
'Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance... grace without discipleship...
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price.'
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer