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

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

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

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.