“We Try To Hide Our Feelings But We Forget Our Eyes Speak.”

“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”

— Rudy Francisco

Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

It’s okay if you thought you were over it but it hits you all over again.

It’s okay to fall apart even after you thought you had it under control.

You are not weak. Healing is messy. And there is no timeline for healing.

Being nonbinary is not childish. It is an important quality that exists across all ages, just like being a woman or a man.

What's childish is assuming that everyone should conform to one's own expectations, and then throwing a tantrum when people are inevitably different.

“Sometimes it’s good to just live life silently. Pay attention to your thoughts as they come and go, and reflect upon your feelings. Sometimes being overly social can offset our inner peace.”

— Nicole Addison

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— Carl Gustav Jung

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne Dyer

Friday morning sermon

Let it hurt, then let it heal.