Elizabeth

“Anyway, what I'm telling you is you wear down these sorrows using what you have, what comes to hand. You talk them over, you live them through, you don't let them sit inside. See, that's what the drum was good for. Letting those sorrows out, into the open, where those songs could bear them away.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“Mary is the archtype of the gushing spring, the rushing fountain, the source of inexhaustible life and fecundity. She is, of course, the primordial womb in which all of creation is being fashioned and knit together, the Mother of God, the one whose yes allowed the divine and human to be woven together in a new way.”
― Christine Valters Paintner, Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal

“We must move our knowing to the bodily, cellular, participative, and thus unitive level. We must keep eating and drinking the Mystery, until one day it dawns on us, in an undefended moment, "My God, I really am what I eat! I also am the Body of Christ." Then we can henceforth trust and allow what has been true since the first moment of our existence.”
― Richard Rohr O.F.M.

“This was not a revival of religion in the conventional sense...but rather the discovery that faith was not what you believed but what you did for others when it seemed you could do nothing at all.' Faith returned to them as the result of their compassion and, as they leaned into faith that God was with them in suffering, their capacity for compassion grew.”
― Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith