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 problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

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.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.