"Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?"

Emotion, Joy, Anger, Choice

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"Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?"

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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."

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"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."

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"When I am with you, even the water makes me drank."

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"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."

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"It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved."

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"Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward."

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"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

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"I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'."

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"The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see."

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"They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life...God gives us time. And who has time for God?Which makes no sense."

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"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."

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"How can I help this son of mine see when I can't see? The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?"

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"I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks."

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"The joy of small that makes life large."

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"Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agent to bring the fullest night to all the world."

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"Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness."

Integrity

"It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us..."

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