The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

You are free to love without an agenda

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.