Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

It was not an end, it was a beginging

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?