Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

A happy life is a life for others.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.