“To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can’t let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.”
“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later… Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
“You belong to a patient God. Not to a hurry up and fix yourself God, but a be still and let me heal you God. Not a why do you keep doing this God, but a God who gives you the keys to break the cycle. God is patient, and He is pleased to take His time with you.”
“Marriage does not exist solely to make you happy; marriage exists to make you holy.”
“You are being called to live a bigger life. Answer the call. Playing small does not serve you.”
“If you don’t make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.”
“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.”
A very fine article explaining why Orthodox women wear head coverings in church.