God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

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

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.