Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

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.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

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