We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

There are moments when we have to return to our roots.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.