Expectations are resentments under construction.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.