“God’s unwieldy love, which cannot be contained by our words, wants to accept all that we are—nothing of our humanity is to be discarded. No part of our hardwiring or our messy selves is to be disparaged. Where we stand, in all our mistakes and imperfection, is holy ground. It is where God has chosen to be intimate with us, and not in any way other than this. [Our] moment of truth isn’t in recognizing what a disappointment [we] have been all these years. It comes in realizing that God has been beholding [us] for all this time, unable to look anywhere else.”
–Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart
Typo corrected, my mistake!
I love Tattoos on the Heart. The author is Father Gregory Boyle.
His last name is Boyle. What a beautiful message for today. Thank you for these emails.