quotes.

Life is always crazy. But it is especially crazy when you come back to the States for two weeks (plus a week of training) after being gone nearly a year. So to hold you over until I can get back to Nicaragua and into the writing rhythm, here are some quotes that have spoken to me over these last weeks. Hopefully, they will speak to you as well…some food for thought, if you will.

"...maybe we don't find a lot of answers to life's tougher questions, but if we find a few true friends, that's even better. They help you see who you truly are, which is not always the loveliest possible version of yourself, but then comes the greatest miracle of all - they still love you."

"Pretending that things are nicely boxed up and put away robs us of great riches."

"When a vocation fits who we are, by living it we feel ourselves growing into a stronger, truer self, even though the going gets rough and at times we feel confused and tired. The kind of "tired" we feel is worth noting. It is not that heavy, sad fatigue we carry around like a low-grade fever, a form of depression. Life work demands genuine expenditure. We spend ourselves, maybe exhaust ourselves. But the energy flowing out of us feels natural. Just the opposite of feeling pulled at by others, who have their own ideas about what we ought to be doing. When we let this happen, we feel resentful and cranky and sad."

"Hope is really about rest. Resting in the imperfections of today because you believe that tomorrow there is possibility."

"Beauty is a miracle of things going together imperfectly."