But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.

Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.