The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
I didn't take my vows to the LAPD.
Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read.
I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.
