It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

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

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.

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.