Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.

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