



Betrayal and forgiveness are best seen as something akin to falling in love. You cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love.
This was better when I could just come and go as I pleased. When we were whole. Now I’m seeing things that he should be seeing too. We’re just getting torn apart. You need to leave us alone so I can get back to our work.
Penitential Prayer of St. Ambrose of Milan
…Take away from me the heart of stone,
and give me a heart of flesh,
a heart to love and adore Thee,
a heart to delight in Thee…
He left us his broken heart.
I wasn’t asking Hannibal Lecter.