The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.