Elizabeth

“The path away from judgment of self and neighbor requires major mercy, both giving and, horribly, receiving.”
― Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

“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.

“What made life truly precious could not be measured by achievement, or even service. To live fully was not an obligation or an act of faith, it wasn’t a state of being at all, but a capacity, a willingness to engage the smallest and most unexpected aspects of being alive, to remain curious and open to the unforeseen and hitherto unrecognizable. …To live fully was to recognize and acknowledge the tiniest of beauties, those ever present, immutable though often elusive truths, pure and simple as a raindrop on a daisy.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

“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