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When you have the desperate feeling that only one particular person (or job or house or outcome or whatever) can fill the empty place inside, the best (and scariest) thing you can do is let go.
“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.” Madeleine L’Engle
“Open wide your heart. . . .” 2 Corinthians 6:13
The only good thing about being driven and distracted and dissatisfied is that it makes you really thirsty.
“[I]t is one thing to know the chemical formula of water and another to savor it by a spring on a summer’s day.” Fr. Bernardo Olivera
“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.” John 7:37
Sometimes life is dry and thirsty, and then the spring rain comes.
“O thou lord of life, send / my roots rain.” Gerard Manley Hopkins
“And He will come to us like rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:3
There are a lot of things you could collect today. Some are better than others.
“I keep an inventory of wonders. . . .” Wendell Berry
“Choose life. . . .” Deuteronomy 30:19
If the universe is a very little thing, the very big thing you’ve been worrying about must be a very little thing, too.
“He who holds the universe in His hand as if it were a very little thing – He is your shepherd. . . .” Hannah Whitall Smith
“The Lord is my shepherd.” Psalm 23:1
When somebody you love is walking through the darkest valley, maybe God is gently coaxing your timid heart (and hers) to trust.
“[W]hen I walk through the darkest valley, . . . You are close beside me . . . [and] comfort me.” Psalm 23:4
“You gently coax our timid hearts to trust. . . .” Thomas Keating
