Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.