Melissa
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“I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.”
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“The Crucified One is God’s standing solidarity with the suffering, the tragedy, and the disaster of all time, and God’s promise that it will not have the final word. The Risen One is God’s final word about the universe and what God plans to do with all suffering.”
― Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self
― Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self
“Perhaps it requires of you precisely this existential anxiety in order to begin. Precisely these days of transition are perhaps the period when everything in you is working..”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. There is no path toward love except by practicing love. War will always produce more war. Violence can never bring about true peace.”
― Jesus' Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount
― Jesus' Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount
“A bad beginning does not keep you from a good ending.”
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Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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