To be born is to start the journey towards death.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.