If you feel any rising despair, repeat to yourself that love is stronger, love is stronger, love is stronger than any undoing. If you’re feeling any sense of despair, consider writing it on a sticky note and putting it on the mirror. Pain makes us forget that we are never alone.
–Kate Bowler, Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day, p. 67
Photo: International Rose Test Garden, Portland, Oregon, June 18, 2025