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

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.