Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.