the trick is to read the message until it reads you back.

This is excellent. I am going to remember this line.

Dean's handwriting! the bit about not wanting to write the story you're saddled with! it is awesome how you start with the premise that life is writing, and then writing/language as a representation of life gets turned around: what we think of as life is a representation, a metaphor for writing/language.

also, the heartbreak moment:

worship is every bit as selfish as it is submissive, because prayer is the act of disguising your weaknesses as love.

So which is it, Dean asks. Is this love or is this weakness?

Castiel replies, This is salvation.

SALVATION. *weeeeeps*