Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.