Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

There is only one race ... and it is human!

I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.