Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It’s not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.
Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.
Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot ‘do’ humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.
If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.
Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name...
Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly.
Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.
The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
Love always leaves a significant mark.
It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
Even though you can’t finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
The soul is healed by being with children. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy.
Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don’t let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.
I am especially fond of you.
True love never forces.
It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.