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.

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"