Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.