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

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.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.