I live my life knowing that God loves me. I know this because I completely put my fate in His hands, and for doing that I have seen the ultimate result of His unconditional love. In the end, it only matters what He thinks of me, because I know if He loves me then others will, too. This is God’s redemption for me. Rachel Clark.

Jesus does not disdain you for the things religious experts say you shouldn’t do, be, or feel. Jesus doesn’t want you to stay away from him out of some idea that you would sully Christianity by your presence. Jesus wants you to break through the crowd and grab hold of any part of him you can reach. And when you do, he will claim you as his beloved child.

Truth shines, calls, and wants to be found. Truth is found beyond thought, beyond rules, beyond words, and beyond walls.” Suzanne DeWitt Hall.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Francis de Sales.

Our God is gender-full.

Why isn’t God female? As my teacher said, “He is.” Rich Robinson.

Fathers and doctors of the church like Origen and Augustine recognized that language is too limited to adequately describe God. There are no words which can capture the being which loved so much that it exploded into energy and matter. But humans are designed to seek understanding, and language creates form for incomprehensible concepts, and so we apply human ideas to a God who is not human.

When we allow the Holy Spirit to breathe meaning through today’s scripture we make a magnificent discovery: Gender fluid people are actually more God-like than those who identify with a gender binary.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. Kahlil Gibran.

Novelty comes about by the self-organizing dynamism inherent in creatures themselves. Evolution over deep time is so creative because the material of the world itself has the God-given inner ability to become ever more. Elizabeth A. Johnson.