Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.
You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
I didn't take my vows to the LAPD.
Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read.
I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.