Travis

“Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“We have closed our ears to the cry of the parents who have lost their children because of toxic theology; we have turned away from the tears of the youth who ask if Jesus can love them just as they are. Too many of those questioning their gender identity have been made to feel that they must choose between God and an authentic and healthy life. Not all of the people forced into that decision make it out alive.”
― Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians

“There is nowhere we can go to escape God. Whether in “heaven” or in “hell” or any location or state of consciousness we can conceptualize. There is no “separation”. Ever. No reality can exist in and of itself, or be self-sustained or void of God’s presence. To find one’s self within the realm of being is to find one’s self in the mystery of God, the actualizer and energizer of being. For out of and through and into him are all things. All things. Which includes all things. “God is not only the ultimate reality that the intellect and the will seek but is also the primordial reality with which all of us are always engaged in every moment of existence and consciousness, apart from which we have no experience of anything whatsoever. Or, to borrow the language of Augustine, God is not only ‘superior summon meo’—beyond my utmost heights— but also ‘interior intimo meo’—more inward to me than my inmost depths.”2”
― Keith Giles, Jesus Unforsaken: Substituting Divine Wrath With Unrelenting Love

“You don’t have to be perfect. Not for God, not for your community, not for anyone. All you have to be is human. All you have to be is you. So lay down when you need to, and then, eventually, it will be time for you to get up, have something to eat, and try again.”
― Brian Murphy, Queers The Word: A 40 Day Devotional for LGBTQ+ Christians