“The challenge and grace for each of us is a growing interior freedom—freedom from all that locks us in or that stands in the way of love; freedom for all that beckons to compassionate care; freedom to stand before God with one another in neediness and to receive all as gift. This poverty also includes the pain of insecurity and vulnerability, the risk of standing alone in decisions for justice, the willingness to trust the caring of another, and the reverence for the dignity of every person and all created things.”
-Rose Mary Dougherty, Trusting Love: An Undefended Heart (Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, 2019), p. 3
