For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice