When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom, staying behind the sets and choosing the last place! Why is the way of Jesus worth choosing? Because it is the way to the Kingdom, the way Jesus took, and the way that brings everlasting life.

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.

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

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