To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise (Dostoevsky)
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Are people really doing the best they can do?
The ego can’t abide the mystery in, “I don’t know. I really don’t.”
We are forgiven because we are first loved (1)
“although he knew he was a great sinner, he also knew that Jesus loved him completely, as he was”
How enormous I, and you, are
What occurs to me more and more often is how enormous I am. How much power I have in my own little world. How much potential I have that I myself do not even recognize and I am not aware of. More and more, it astounds me how enormous my power is. My youngest sisterContinue reading “How enormous I, and you, are”
Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil
My Sweet and All-Merciful Lover, By Your freely-given grace that has seen me through all things, and always will, I will pour out what You have filled my heart with, in the staggering certainty of faith. When the anxious, fearful, and ashamed Neil rises up in me today, as he surely will, fill me withContinue reading “Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil”
Suffering demands a fix. We lie to ourselves
Every act you have performed to alleviate suffering in the world amounts to sacrificing something of yourself.
Feel with Neil 