oh my soul...be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions

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

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

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

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Plant in tears, harvest with joy.

I got to bed later than mostPeople to see the moon in the night sky.And wake up earlier than most people to watch the Sunrise.

The gift of your time and attention is love in action.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.