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.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

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

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.