Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.
Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but n...
Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell...So that both veils disappear, and God's followers...
And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold.
I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
Even a mistake is better than nothing.
And slowly the snow began to melt. First, doing a number on children's constructions; Then retreating to the foundations of barns and other buildings. Mangy grass poked through the receding snow. Patc...
You're more than a story.
You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.
You know, sometimes you look at me with longing... ... even though I'm here with you.
You and I are so much the same... You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you kno...
Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulat...