What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.