"i cried, i think, because i was coming to understand in a new way just how much was required of me, how much God was going to strip away all my everything, like silver polish taking the tarnish off old forks. i cried because i know more and more how chekov was right, how we are all running around desperate to make connections with one another, but mostly we are all just estranged. because i know more and more that this glass here is so very dark, that this really is a long loneliness, that it is both lonely and long.
sometimes i feel God has taken a paring knife to me. i know the way an apple feels."
-lauren winner.
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"my child, do no regard lightly the discipline of the L-RD, or lose heart when He rebukes you; for the L-RD disciplines those He loves, and corrects every child He accepts.
now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
THEREFORE.
lift up your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed."
-hebrews 12.
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