reflections on worth – Page 12

Goodness is NOT from God “alone”

Don’t be too quick to embrace the fundamentalism that summarily ascribes all of your good fortune to God/God’s will.

The winner is the one who gives all of themselves away to others first.

Acting piously without being pious is the darkest hypocrisy, underlying our resentment of others, and our own self-loathing.

…I can picture you getting on the floor, eye level with them as toddlers…

I wondered if the fixed smile–as I perceived it–wasn’t also a wince from hurt carried constantly conscious. Inescapable.

It’s the kind of fortitude and okayness that come only from soaking up the outpouring from a ripped open heart.