Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.