Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

Love will make a way out of no way

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!