I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Romans 8:18

What is striking, almost painful, to read now in the 1970’s writing about motherhood is how optimistic it all was. Common sense and a kind of can-do approach to solving the conflicts of motherhood set the tone.
There was faith. The new generation of fathers would help. Good babysitting could be found. Work and motherhood could be balanced. It was all a question of intelligent juggling. And to not falling prey to the trap of self-sacrifice and perfectionism that had tripped up the generation that came before.

p. 87, Perfect Madness, Motherhood in the age of anxiety, Judith Warner.

Because there is a god, this war is not hell. God permits it to happen only for a greater good presently unseen. The war is more like purgatory than hell, for through it’s refining flames we were meant to have the dross of our materialism burned away.

P. 293, daily meditation, Benedictus, July 2024, vol. 4, no. 7.

Nothing is impossible for him who believes that the power of god will accomplish the will of god.
Jeremiah Stodt, beside the still waters, July | August 2024, vol. 29, issue 4

By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

We make our soul with our behavior, for soul doesn’t come already made in heaven.

p. 260, soul’s code, James Hillman.

After all, we can still be quite clear that from the evidence of our feelings, and from the fateful idiosyncratic events, something else intervenes in human life that cannot be held within the confines of nature or nurture.

p.129, neither nature or nurture, but something else, soul’s code, James Hillman.

We are parented by everything around us – if “parenting” means watching, instructing, encouraging, and admonishing.

p.86, the soul’s code, James Hillsman.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

… it doesn’t matter whether you are feminine or masculine or any composite of them. We all dissolve together. Far more urgent matters than gender call out to the passion of psychology.

p. 37, In a nutshell, the soul’s code – in search of character and meaning, James Hillman, 1996.