How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment. 'Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe,' he said.
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
The three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white p...
All wise people say the same thing that you are deserving of love and that it's all here now everything you need. When you pray you are not starting the conversation from scratch just remembering...
There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, t...
Remember that you own what happened to you.
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
My good ideas for other people so often seem to annoy them.
In the face of everything, we slowly come through.
I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.
I love to be, and so often am, right.
I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellulite on your stomach—but not only do I get along w...
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.
How alive am I willing to be?
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...