Melissa

“I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.”
― Salman Rushdie

“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.”
― Richard Rohr, 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..”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, 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.”
― Richard Rohr, Jesus' Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount