Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

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.

Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.