Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

True love never forces.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.