DO PENANCE
In a thick Eastern European accent, he simply said, “Pray to God. Ask him to forgive your sins.”
In a thick Eastern European accent, he simply said, “Pray to God. Ask him to forgive your sins.”
I don’t celebrate his death; I’m more brokenhearted by how he lived his life.
It takes us to a place where pain and rejection don’t exist, but neither does beauty or intimacy.
I think that when we encounter something as enormous as grace or as powerful as redemption, the only possible response is to weep.
“When it comes to death, you have three options,” he explained to me in the fast food franchise…
There was the wild night in Paraty dancing behind the Gecko Chill Bar, which ended with me running five miles barefoot along the river and collapsing on the front steps of a cathedral on the edge of town.