“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
― Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
“Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears. Take in what is there and give no thought to what might have been there or what is somewhere else. That can come later, if it must come at all. (And notice here how the true training for anything whatever that is good always prefigures and, if submitted to, will always help us in, the true training for the Christian life)”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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