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It's hard not to feel as though God is only near to us on our good days, but I can assure you that He is holding you tight in the middle of your storm. He is listening carefully to your quiet whispers of fear in the dead of the night. 💛

Only by rooting our lives in Christ’s faith and power can we grow in grace and wisdom.

Our Daily Bread

"Sometimes, you just need to disconnect. The world will still be there when you return."

𝔠𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔡𝔞𝔱𝔢

—Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achivement.

Albert Camus

Your trauma taught you to expect storms, but your healing is teaching you to trust clear skies—to believe that not every hello ends in goodbye, not every quiet holds a storm, not every love hides pain, and not every gift carries conditions. Your heart remembers the hurt, but it can learn to welcome joy.

Vex King

Many situations feel hopeless, but for those who know God and believe in His faithfulness, there’s always a reason for hope as we trust His power and grace to carry us through.

Our Daily Bread

NGC 6357, Celestial Cathedral

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Maui, Hawaii by Jordan McQueen

When I ask people when they really grew spiritually, they never describe an easy time. Never.

Chuck Swindoll

Life is teaching me the law of detachment. Ain’t nothing really yours, you gotta be comfortable with not being attached. Just enjoying life for what it is & moving on when it’s time.

“Desde la infancia mi corazón y mi espíritu se inclinaban a la bondad y a los tiernos sentimientos aún cuando estaba siempre dispuesto a acometer grandes actos (…) Es el arte, y sólo él, el que me ha salvado. ¡Ah!, me parecía imposible dejar el mundo antes de haber dado todo lo que sentía germinar en mí, y así he prolongado esta vida miserable, verdaderamente miserable, con un cuerpo tan sensible al que todo cambio un poco brusco puede hacer pasar del mejor al peor estado de salud. Paciencia, es todo lo que me debe guiar ahora, y así lo hago.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven, «Testamento de Heiligenstadt»

Me consideraba alguien racional, analítico y centrado con sus convicciones, pero esa racionalidad que me caracteriza no es nada comparado cuando mis sentimientos se desbordan. Ni la propia razón contiene el impulso que me posee por querer sentir. Es un peligro que me enamore, y más aun que me encariñe de cualquier persona, solo a quien me quiera conocer y me permita conocerle es en quien puedo confiar, aunque me invade la ansiedad.

— Firthunands

In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.

Robert Glover

En un mundo donde se normalizó la violencia ser empático se volvió un acto revolucionario.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Milan Kundera

“The task is not in getting the healing the task is in what will you do with your healing. The task is not in seeing the light the task is in what will you do with the light. It is when you have choices that God can see who you really are not when you are without.”

— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

Los sensibles somos frágiles, pero disfrutamos de lo que los demás ni se dan cuenta.

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.

Dan Brown

In the long and difficult effort of spiritual recovery, the Church does not separate the soul from the body. The whole man has fallen away from God; the whole man is to be restored, the whole man is to return. The catastrophe of sin lies precisely in the victory of the flesh -- the animal, the irrational, the lust in us -- over the spiritual and the divine. But the body is glorious, the body is holy, so holy that God Himself "became flesh." Salvation and repentance then are not contempt of the body or neglect of it, but restoration of the body to its real function as the expression and the life of the spirit, as the temple of the priceless human soul. Christian asceticism is a fight, not against the body but for the body. For this reason, the whole man -- body and soul -- repents. The body participates in the prayer of the soul just as the soul prays through and in the body.

--Rev Dr. Alexander Schmemann: Great Lent - Journey to Pascha

color study: lavender blue by Ezra Leary