“It might just be the fact that God left some of those gaps so that he could be your Father there. So that he could come into the places of your own heart where you feel tender, or unseen, or not-fathered, or confused or lost, and in those gaps is the room to learn more about God, who loves to rescue you, draw you back from the darkness, set you upright in his grace and pour out this love upon your soul. What it is to be beloved.”

“All paternity and all maternity is preceded by Divine Election, by the choice of God, that this life must be, and I choose it for this age.”

“On first beholding created woman, man must surely have thought: “God gave you to me.” He said as much, though in different words—but he said as much (Gn 2:23). Awareness of gift and givenness is clearly written into the biblical Creation account. For man, woman is first an object of awe and wonder.”

“Yet, when we choose to be obedient daughters, following God at his word, walking in the world, striving for fiat step by step, the Kingdom is unleashed in us, overflows, and we get to bear out into the world the heart and mind of God. We know a truly exalted freedom, because then, we get to be like God. So, once I said yes to my vocation, creativity began to be unleashed in me.”

“For I know well the plans I have for you, says the Lord."

“Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come!"

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God”