Most of us have done fairly well in our lives. We learned how to run on that one wheel, but now we want a refund.
Jesus was soft on crime. He’d never have been elected anything.
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. I can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, lik...
But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are l...
But when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again.
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best fr...
Being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.
[M]ost of us have figured out that we have to do what's in front of us and keep doing it. We clean up beaches after oil spills. We rebuild whole towns after hurricanes and tornadoes. We return calls a...
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you co...
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour...
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance...
Whatever you use to keep the pain at bay robs you of the flecks and nuggets of gold that feeling grief will give you.
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
