Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

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

People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.