We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.