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

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

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

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

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.