“Liberating love cajoles me into life even when I think I would prefer to remain on the sidelines. It offers me Hope in the grace of this present moment. That Hope bids me pay attention to the present moment, telling me that all the love I need is there, everything I need to love is there. It engages all my energies, reminding me that I am a part of God’s liberating love for others. It allows me to trust in that love even when my bungling efforts fail or when countersigns like rejection, oppression, and injustice, seem to prevail. Even then, especially then, it calls me to believe in God’s redeeming Presence.”
-Rose Mary Dougherty, Trusting Love: An Undefended Heart, p. 21
