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

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

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.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.