Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.