One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you.

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