“My last word has to be gratitude, gratitude for being.. It is a harsh world, indescribably cruel. It is a gentle word, unbelievably beautiful. It is a world that can make us bitter, hateful, rapid destroyers of joy. It is a world that can draw forth tenderness from us, as we lean towards one another over broken gates. It is a world of monsters and saints, a mutilated world, but it is the only one we have been given. We should let it shock us not into hate or anxiety, but into unconditional love.â€
Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection
