Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.

I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.