The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

Jesus?" he whispered as his voice choked "I feel so lost" A hand reached out and squeezed his, and didn't let go. "I know Mack. But it's not true. I am with you and I'm not lost. I'm sorry it feels that way, but hear me clearly. You are not lost.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.