Slough

It’s either love or something else. If it’s something else, let it go.

Dropping it

Non-forgiveness is like clutching a hot coal in our closed fist. We only drop it when a moment of perfect clarity reveals how holding this pain has distorted and deformed our entire humanhood.

Divestment

In the game’s second half, there are sundry encouragements to let go of things—if not actual then conceptual, e.g., mental things. In practice, this means relinquishing our opinions. Sadly, for many of us, this is just not an option.

In the soul’s gymnasium

In the soul’s gymnasium, it’s not what a man does that matters; it’s what he stops doing.

Good medicine

Women cry easily, naturally. Tears release endorphins; a good cry is good medicine. Men are mostly strangers to how they feel. They cry hard, in spasms, or not at all.

Jesus cried extravagantly.