By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.

All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.