To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved… - Nancy Mairs
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved…
- Nancy Mairs
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kin… - Nancy Mairs
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kin…
The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and ou… - Nancy Mairs
The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and ou…
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes th… - Nancy Mairs
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes th…
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become pr… - Nancy Mairs
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become pr…
no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding t… - Nancy Mairs
no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding t…
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience. - Nancy Mairs
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasin… - Nancy Mairs
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasin…
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives. - Nancy Mairs
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.
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