The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.