but I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings. - Barbara Brown Taylor

According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, “Grow, grow.

...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.

I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.