I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.
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.
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.