Feeding people is a way of loving them.

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.

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

I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.

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

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.