I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

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

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.