My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.