I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

Hope begins in the dark.

You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.