Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.