1:
God is with us even during silence, His generous forgiving always on the edge around us. Be brim full of joy for redeeming love. Brim full.
2:
My joy is full … my heart is brim with joy … in God’s strength I can do all things
Alma 26:11
3:
We might have preferred for God to show up differently in our suffering. We might have wanted God to arrive with the brute strength of the gods, to heal us or to hasten our deaths, to issue a command from on high, from outside the processes that ensnare us. Instead, we have God within us, the word at the source of our being, the word which, when contradicted, is anguish itself. That word is not silenced in the lives of the sorrowful. It is heard as much in their quieted voices as in any ecstatic praise.
Jeffrey Vogel, All Manner of Things
4:
Her fragile throat, her female organs,
Her multicolored dress, creams, and trinkets
Are embraced by forgiveness. What is not embraced
By forgiveness?
Czeslaw Milosz, Lecture VI