Oh yes! This really speaks to my condition!

“I deeply know that I have a home in Jesus, just as Jesus has a home in God. I know, too, that when I abide in Jesus I abide with him in God. “Those who love me,” Jesus says, “will be loved by my Father” (John 14:21). My true spiritual work is to let myself be loved, fully and completely, and to trust that in that love I will come to the fulfillment of my vocation. I keep trying to bring my wandering, restless, anxious self-home, so that I can rest there in the embrace of love.” – Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen expresses the cries of our hungry hearts so well.

And Richard Rohr captures the concepts and spirit of our seeking minds.

These two men technically belong to the Roman Catholic Church, but their hearts, minds, and spirits were never limited by it.  They belong to the universal catholic church and speak to ALL of us and call us to the freedom of belonging first to Jesus Christ as the Love of God fleshed out for us.

And to me as a woman, Anne Lamott, technically a Presbyterian, fleshes out a woman’s journey with Jesus Christ so honestly that it frees us from the stress of pretending we’ve got it all together.  And that helps us keep on getting back up when we’ve fallen and opening our hearts to the freeing, life changing Love of God expressed in Jesus.