In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.