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.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

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.

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

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

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

Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.