How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.
How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.
To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.