Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at that only in a negative way. You wanted to give your heart to others, and you did so quickly and easily. But now you are being asked to let go of all these self-made props and trust that God is enough for you. You must stop being a pleaser and reclaim your identity as a free self.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)