Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb ColtonQuotes currently Trending
![Agatha Christie quote: "There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is..."](/pic/246045/600x316/quotation-agatha-christie-theres-a-saying-by-some-great-writer-or-other.jpg)
![Homer quote: "There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that..."](/pic/313437/600x316/quotation-homer-there-is-nothing-alive-more-agonized-than-man-of-all.jpg)
I try to congure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are. I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards...
Margaret Atwood