Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
No" is a complete sentence.
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.