[Find your way home]

"Find Your Way Home" is a book written by the women of Magdalene, "a two-year residential and support community for women coming out of correctional facilities or off the street who have survived lives of abuse, prostitution and drug addiction in Nashville, TN."

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Below are quotes that I really appreciated from the book.

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"No matter where we are, we are better coming together than living separately."

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"Our journeys all start and end with God, and everything we do is a step toward our returning to wholeness. Because grace is our beginning, we are worthy of all good things."

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"Even though we may feel lonely when we cry, we are never truly alone. Our despair is part of a larger chorus howling for justice that stretches back to the prophets."

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"I find this circle is like church for me-- at least how church is supposed to feel. It feels like a loving group that is sharing a common goal, and there is no reason to try and take power or give up your voice."

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"The heart of the matter is that God is in every person and that every person should be treated accordingly, with love and respect."

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"...I'm so thankful God didn't give up on me."

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"It is not a problem to be lost. It is only a problem if you think it is impossible to find your way home."

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"What we are feeling and experiencing is not a sense of being lost but the wonder of discovering something new."

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"Finding the humor in anything is a sign of grace."

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"We need to be servants of one another, everyone with a different job."

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"Everyone is giving. Everyone is receiving."

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"...radical love can change the world."

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"The only way I can know you is if you tell me you have been in the ditch, too."

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May it be so.