For now, I’ll bring what I can to my own four walls. I recognize the purpose, the promise of this: a church is made by its space, by its practices.
SCHUYLERI allow myself to be a weathervane; receive every feeling that greets the shore of me.
More Schuyler Quotes
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My love lives in my cheeks – gives me away by the first smile. all the lines from years spent laughing, warm with extra freckles in the summer; a poker face that doesn’t keep once my knees fold.
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Take me back to the evergreen trees; to the sunlight through the leaves, the bending ferns and fronds. The pitter of the rain, the smooth rocks sleeping under moss. Take me back to the life I know before this body.
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Meet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
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Hold me here, where I feel less like a stranger to my own laughter. Where it’s easier to believe things happen for a reason or maybe, at least, out of a thousand winding roads my life might take, I will still find one that fits me.
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I’m remembering again, how loneliness has always made me brave.
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If every feeling comes like a wave, I try to decide what kind of coastline I’ll become.
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I’ll craft a haven that that cradles every joy and sorrow, but doesn’t hold them to keep.
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Some mornings, I like to live like a secret; wake as quietly as I can, slip out of bed without so much as a wrinkle.
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I don’t want to be a saint, I want a love I don’t fight alone to keep.
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The world will be loud again. I’ll notice the loneliness less.
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I descend into an unopened sky, the ocean floor, the final embrace of a graveyard. Find your fill of me before my blue pales like a sour moon.
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In a dream, I’m holding you close and when I wake, I do. How lucky, to want and have.
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In a dream, my fingertips pulse. I’ll be patient in my blooming. In a dream, I let time pass through open hands.
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I’m thinking about how early the spring flower buds rise up from the grass; just barely on winter’s heels. How uncomfortable, how cold the soil must be, still half-frosted, when the roots start to take shape.
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I allow myself to be a weathervane; receive every feeling that greets the shore of me.
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