We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus?

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

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.