My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false self and its demons. No, it is precisely in the midst of this struggle that our Lord comes to us and says, as he said to the old man in the story: ‘As soon as you turned to me again, you see I was beside you.’

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.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.