The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

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.

Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

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