I'm an accidental writer.

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

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.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

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

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