Love never fails.

I'm Tiffany. "Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders." - Deut. 33:12 Things I often talk about: Purpose Writings Obsessions Seminary Adventures Medical...

[loveispatient]

"Hush, now. It'll be all right. It does no good to worry over what's already happened. What matters is now. The past and the future are both beyond our reach,"

"I'm afraid she might not come back," Tink said.

"You have to think hard about the very thing before you, dear. Nothing else. To think too long on what might happen is a fool's business... And the thing before us is to wait in this old cottage without giving up hope. Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire."

-Andrew Peterson

[loveispatient]

"All the tears that had gathered in him just moments ago changed into words, and he began to scratch them into his journal." -Andrew Peterson

[loveispatient]

"Faith... is a long walk on a dark night." -KJ Ramsey

[loveispatient]

"What I mean is that I’d still make a lot of the same decisions today. . . . And also, I have compassion for myself. I trust myself. Take, for instance, when I snapped at you earlier, back at the apartment, when you said what you did about my confessing sins. It wasn’t a nice thing to do, and I’m not sure you deserved it. But I don’t regret it. Because I know I had my reasons, and I did the best I could with every thought and feeling that led up to it.” -Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

[loveispatient]

"Most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on." -Celeste Ng

[loveispatient]

"...and then she would be looking at the typewriter, wanting to wake it into some dream." -Stephen King

[loveispatient]

"We learned to hold up failure as an event, separate from ourselves, as a thing we go through and not a thing that we are. Of course, we might have made some poor choices. But we're limited, flawed, funny little beings. We fail. It's unavoidable. And it hurts." -J.S. Park

[loveispatient]

"I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.... Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix." -Erin Morgenstern, The Midnight Circus

[loveispatient]

"Maybe we all need to doubt, rail against, and question before we can really let go " - Lori Gottlieb

[apoemaday]

Mysteries, Yes

by Mary Oliver

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous  to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken. How people come, from delight or the scars of damage, to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

[loveispatient]

"Excuse my unburdening myself. My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper." -Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

[loveispatient]

"Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man."

[loveispatient]

Hope. It’s recurrent, it keeps creeping back in no matter how many times it gets ripped apart and every time the hope goes it takes chunks of you with it.

Nicole Hermann in Grey’s Anatomy

[loveispatient]

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Mary Oliver

[loveispatient]

Before we can grasp the full meaning of the Resurrection, we have to witness or experience crucifixion.

Nik Ripken

[loveispatient]

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

Ira Glass

[loveispatient]

"When I awoke, I knew I must not forget what it was to be her. So I fight, and I kick, and I scream, and I feel. It is good to let it in. It is good to feel. Because feeling brings me power." - Ziva David