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You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Young
William Paul Young
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In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly... And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
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Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
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And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.
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City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.
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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
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It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.
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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.
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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
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You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.
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