Fact or Fiction

"I nominally have [a place of my own] and am nominally master of the house, but things seldom go as I would have chosen. The truth is that the only alternatives are either solitude (with all it's miseries and dangers, both moral and physical) or else all the rubs and frstrations of a joint life. The second, even at its worst seems to me far the better."

C.S. Lewis
Letters to an American Lady

"[Senior devil Screwtape to junior devil Wormwood:] Humans who have not the gift of continence can be deterred from seeking marriage as a solution because they do not find themselves "in love," and, thanks to us, the idea of marrying with any other motive seems to them low and cynical. Yes, they think that. They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation for chastity, and for the transmission of life, as something lower than a storm of emotion."

C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters

A Little Advice

If ever an attractive male should come to your house to deliver your bed and you would like to be able to flirt a little and still maintain your dignity, I suggest that you avoid leaving your copy of The Soul of Sex lying in the middle of the floor in plain sight.

While it may give your handsome delivery man cause to smirk and flirt back with comments such as "Don't get too excited, it's just a full", it will not, I repeat NOT, allow you to keep your dignity.

Life in Community

It can be messy living with other people but there is something invaluable about the kind and wise words of sisters in Christ offered at just the right time that I sorely missed when I was living and traveling alone.

Thank you Jesus for the amazing way you extend grace to me in the lives of faithful believers as their paths cross mine. May I be able to offer the same gift.

More Great Quotes

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." -Richard Moss

"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success." David Feherty

"What does she want, volcanic Venus, as she goes fuming round? What does she want? She says she wants a lover, but don't you believe her. She's seething like a volcano and volcanos don't want lovers." - D.H. Lawrence

FYI

I adore my sister! I'm pretty sure we're actually twins. We were just accidently born three years apart.

Broken

Why is it so hard to admit that we don't have it all together? And why is it so easy for us to believe that others do?

Why not admit the truth? Perhaps the pain of being broken wouldn't seem so bad if we allowed ourselves to be broken together. "I'm not perfect. Please love me anyway," seems straightforward enough.

The tricky thing about being broken though, is that it tends to lead to more breaking. Instead of bringing us together we often use our brokenness to isolate ourselves or others so we can bare our shame alone. Hidden. Guarded. Safe. But not loved. Not free.

I'd rather love and be loved. I'd rather be free.