The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.