Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.

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

Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

We have God's joy in our blood.