love.

“Love is a word that our culture often uses wrongly for such things as fornication, adultery, and perversion.  Yet, the answer to such sins is not to abandon love but to redeem it.”

-Gerry Breshears

of trials

“For then I realize that my suffering is not my own.  It is the passion of Christ, stretching out its tendrils into my life in order to bear rich clusters of grapes, making my soul dizzy with the wine of Christ’s love, and pouring that wine as strong fire upon the whole world.”

-Thomas Merton