When you are pressed down like coal. When you suffer. That's what an angel is. Dust molded into a diamond by the weight of this world. They crush you before you have the chance to become anything. They crush you, but they don't destroy you. You
Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet i