Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.