Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.