Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.