deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

“Dear Child of God, you are loved with a love that nothing can shake, a love that loved you long before you were created, a love that will be there long after everything has disappeared. You are precious, with a preciousness that is totally quite immeasurable. And God wants you to be like God. Filled…

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”      Rainer Maria Rilke

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.” Sherlock Holmes

“All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.” Plutarch

“Thomas Merton pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.” Richard Rohr

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain

“What we largely have in Western religion today is bad news, an attempt to superimpose an impossible order on a world that God allows to be disordered, and in which God even uses the disorder to bring us all to Love. How could we miss or avoid such utter good news?” Richard Rohr

“Instead of saying: “I’m struggling…” Try: “I am being severely inconvenienced by circumstances that are quite clearly not of my making.” George the Station Cat

Corridor  I’ve grown old— now my own name rings a bell. Billy Collins