He murmured words of comfort. “You need to eat more.” Women liked to be told this, he’d found. In

If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.

What if I was born into a normal life, one without a tortured childhood and without the weight of so many responsibilities and burdens?

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.