Deus Caritas Est

For everyone who complains, rants, yells, screams, cries, worries, wishes, wants, agonizes, anlayzes, deliberates, frets or frowns, I offer Teresa of Avila's wisdom:
"Let nothing upset you,
let nothing startle you.

Pope John Paul the Great: "The Church imposes nothing; the Church only proposes something, but what we propose, we believe to be the Truth, and the Truth will impose itself on the human heart."
The same can be said of gravity, relativity, quantum theory...yet Truth, THE Truth stands infinitely beyond this in it's imposition and in it's ability to free us to love......

"Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me,...

I remember meeting an apoplectic woman driving a rather large tank of a car. We faced off in a dirt lot that served as overflow parking for the parish festival.
I didn't know what to make of the situation. I manuevered my subcompact as far to the right of the aisle as it could be as the lady's Hidenberg barreled toward me. It had materialized from the midst of a dust cloud. She was driving down the middle of...