Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you.” Genesis 28:15

“A merry heart does good, like medicine.” – Proverbs 17:22

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.By this everyone will know you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:34-35

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

I still love the Church because, at the end of the day, I know that it can be a healing source of love and inspiration. But in order to do that, we must be like Peter, willing to learn and grow, and follow the Spirit’s leading, even out of our comfort zones.

“Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and the one who loves is born of God and fully experiences God.” – 1 John 4:7