"I waited for the long silence inside me to end, for God, for Jesus- my first and best friend -to return. I waited for the music of faith to find me again. And as the hoot owls and the crickets called and chattered, and the smell of wood smoke from the first fires of the season crept out of the chimneys, inside I remained silent, stunned, incredulous. I waited for [Him] to come back."
"Losing your faith in a world where God is all around you is a precarious business. When God shows His face on a daily basis to your friends and neighbors, it is, on some level, impossible to stop believing in Him. Instead, I felt that God chose to exclude me from his world. .. what had I done, I asked myself, to make God disappear?"
"If they could keep me safe from harsh realities, maybe they could hold on to the dream of the perfect family in the Garden of Eden."
" I began to understand that sometimes you have to step outside of goodness to discover who you are."
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