"He probably was your soul mate. Your problem is you don’t understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit and that’s what everyone wants but a true soul mate is a mirror. The person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet cause they tear down your walls and smack you awake but to live with a soul mate forever? Nah, it’s too painful. Soul mates they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you and then they leave and thank god for it."

"We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It’s how we learn. We breathe love. It’s how we learn. And it is inevitable."

"

I thought you were it. 
There – I said it, I said it.
Two years ago, you were
my everything. Eyes so 
blue they were my dawn
sky, hands so warm they
were the summer I 
curled up in. Laughter
like homecoming. 

I thought you were it.
That you were my person,
that you were the only one
I would ever string my 
heart onto a fishhook for.
That you were the only
one who would ever reflect
me back better than I was.

When you left, I put my
heart on a platter and
threw it across the room 
and then ate it the next
morning. When you left, 
I screamed to the skies 
like the gods were listening.
When you left, I broke.

Two years down and I look
at you like a bump in the road.
I look at you not like the sky
but like a star that only appears
every few months. Like a 
memory that I can open
and close like a love letter.

I thought you were it,
but the truth is that you
barely mean anything to me now.
That you were just the beginning.

"

"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to him. We must not use the Bible as a sort encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons."