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Rebecca
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“The universe is not twice given. The split between Spirit and matter is in our thinking, our way of speaking of it. I touch God when I caress the face of a lover, hold the Beloved when my son’s hand is in mine, breathe in Spirit when I catch the scent of the sun on the breeze. The world offers itself to me in a thousand ways, and I ache with an awareness of how infrequently I am able to receive more than a small fraction of what is offered, of how often I reject what is because I feel it is not good enough.”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
“The truth is that some days I feel I am ready for freedom and other days I am so tired I don’t want the responsibility it brings into my life. I want a rest from choosing, from trying to increase my ability to choose wisely. And then, in a moment of grace, I am given a certainty: if I never did one more meditation, ceremony, workshop, therapy session, course, or cleansing diet, never attended one more meeting or participated in one more community cause, never wrote another line... it would be okay. It would truly be okay. For a moment, as I fully feel this revelation, I am free to move toward what I love.”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
“How would you know?” I snapped at him, and we both looked to the midwife. When she assured us that everything was fine and reminded us both to breathe, we listened. She knew. She had been there many times before. It was her knowledge, born of experience, that we trusted.”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
“And sometimes, I allow myself to imagine that each moment in which we love well by simply being all of who we are and being fully present allows us to give back something essential to the Sacred Mystery that sustains all life.”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
“It was his smile I love best. His upper canines have never grown in, and the string of holistic dentists my parents had taken him to as a child had failed to notice until it was too late. By the time he was 23, and he got himself to an oral surgeon, they had rotated sideways inside his gums and were injecting himself through the tissue under his nose. The surgeon who removed them told Sean to preserve his baby teeth for as long as possible, then when they rotted out, he be given posts. But they never rotted out. They stayed, stubborn relics of a misplaced childhood, reminding anyone who witnessed his pointless, endless, reckless belligerence, that this man was once a boy.”
― Educated
― Educated
Rebecca’s 2025 Year in Books
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