Estoy esforzándome por cambiar mis hábitos, transformar mis creencias, abrazar mis defectos, comprender mis debilidades, aceptándome centímetro a centímetro de piel, expresando mis mejores rasgos y ejercitándolos.
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jennifer willoughby, the sun is still a part of me
“Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”
— Unknown
She's been through hell and came out, an angel. You didn't break her, darling. You don't own that kind of power.
BMM Poetry
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
“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
— Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Ser bueno es apostar por corazones que ni siquiera saben que merecen ser amados. Dar amor incluso a quienes parecen no tener un lugar para recibirlo.
“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”
— Myra McEntire