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

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?