It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.