I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

I write what I would like to read.