Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

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

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.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

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

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.