Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norriswas a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood,...
dying desert faces
Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.
curiosity conspiracy natural
I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
moving suffering surrender
To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
book reading shining
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
may fool bitter
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
love running struggle
A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.
force knows
Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.
heart receiving dignity
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.
friendship art natural-gifts
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
inspiring spring moving
Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.
writing
I write what I would like to read.
helping dictionary
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
christian ideas desire
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
life soul saving
Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.