Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.