I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.
It's a great time to be alive.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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 could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
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.
