“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” G.K. Chesterton
Healthy boundaries
Skunks and porcupines
“Love means loving the unlovable – or it is no virtue at all.” G.K. Chesterton
Hug your porcupines, walk with your skunks!
Skunks and porcupines
Peace of Christ
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.” Flannery O’Connor
If we embrace the cross of Christ with love, God rewards us with the ineffable peace of Christ in our hearts…
The price for peace
God’s grace
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” Flannery O’Connor
Growing with grace?
Friendship
“Love your neighbor with a great, charitable love, but befriend only those with whom you can be mutually supportive in virtue.” St. Francis de Sales