Edwina Gateley Quotes

I have learned that we must rediscover the inherent call to wholeness in the experience of being a mother or a father. When I find myself missing my desert and mountain tops I have to be brought back to earth and realize that my son’s smiles, tears, games and little crises are as significant as the big revelations or insights in the overall plan of things.

I know now that no matter how far we travel, how much we accomplish, how deeply we suffer, or how joyfully we dance, God is always with us in all of those things for the whole of our life's journey.

We are too complicated. We have made God too complicated. We have been so anxious to define and to control, that God has been lost in all the definitions, the rituals and the rules. God is. And that, perhaps, is too simple for us.

I sat alone in that stupid forest asking God to tell me what to do.