You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.

No" is a complete sentence.

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

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.

Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.