I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.