Paula

“We were thrown into a storm, and for a while it proved more powerful than both of us. Our sails weren’t stronger than the wind’s rage, and we nearly drowned in the currents. Just when I was sure the lighthouse couldn’t guide me home, I heard my grandmother’s story. Her struggles and her determination taught me that each day”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“his”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“When we feel abandoned, alone, and lost, what’s left to us? What do I have, what do you have, what do any of us have left except the overpowering temptation to rail against God and to blame him for the dark night into which he’s led us, to blame him for our misery, to blame him and cry out against him for not caring? What’s left to us when that which we love most has been taken?”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. —T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
― Cynthia Bourgeault, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity