Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God’s voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Go where your best prayers take you.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways to do it. One way is to do things for Him that He needs to have done - run errands for Him, carry messages for Him, fight on His side, feed His lambs, and so on. The other way is to do things for Him that you need to do - sing songs for Him, tell Him what's on your mind and in your heart, in general rejoice in Him.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.