Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

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.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

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

Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.