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.

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

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

All freedom comes from discipline.