Sarah M. Wells’s Reviews > God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right > Status Update

"My sense of this life as pure gift--my sense of a grace operative in this world despit, an even amid, its hurts and terrors--propels me to allow life to open my heart still wider, even if this openness comes by breaking. For I have seen the whole world fall into a few hearts, and nothing has ever struck me as more beautiful."