...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

No" is a complete sentence.

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.