In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Goals are discovered, not made.

He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.