We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.