Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.