How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.

When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.