“You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.”

“And how long is that going to take?”

“I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.”

“That could be a long time.”

“I will tell you a further mystery,” he said. “It may take longer.”

- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

let my trust be in mercy, not in myself. let my hope be in mercy, not in health, or strength, or ability.  if i trust with mercy, hope with mercy, everything else will become, for me, strength, health, and support. if i do not, everything will be my destruction.  ~ after thomas merton