Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.