Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.

I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.