The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's beloved daughter or son. That's the truth of who you are.

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.