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1 " How lucky, then, that we are not failing. Our lives are to problems to be solved. We can have meaning and beauty and love, but nothing even close to resolution. "
― Kate Bowler ,
2 " It's easy to imagine letting go when we forget that choices are luxuries, allowing us to maintain our illusion of control. But until those choices are plucked from our hands—someone dies, someone leaves, something breaks—we are only playing at surrender. "
3 " There is a fellowship around the afflicted, and it is marked by silence. "
4 " There is a fellowship among the afflicted, and it is marked by silence. "
5 " Later, when I was able to walk, I went hiking through a North Carolina forest with my friend Laura to tell her the long story of how I was coming undone but I was not unmade. "Then please don't fuck this up, Kate," she said sagely, which sent me into hysterics. She is a therapist and one of the wisest Christians I know, so she is keenly aware that a well-placed expletive is better than all the inspiration in the world. "