We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

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.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.