What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.