Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Forgiveness indeed heals memories

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.