When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.