Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step....To heal is to let the Holy Spirit call me to dance, to believe again, even amid my pain, that God will orchestrate and guide my life.

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

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.