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

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.