Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

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

Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.