The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
03544 – The Most Terrible Poverty
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02545 – Read Top Down, Then Bottom Up
I'm very uglySo don't try to convince me thatI am a very beautiful personBecause at the end of the dayI hate myself in every single wayAnd I'm not going to lie to myself by sayingThere is beauty inside of me that mattersSo rest assured I will remind myselfThat I am a...
02358 – Dwell on God, Not Feelings
If you dwell on your own feelings about things rather than dwelling on the faithfulness, the love, and the mercy of God, then you're likely to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Our feelings are very fleeting and ephemeral, aren't they? We can't depend...
02100 – Life: Beautiful & Hard
I can't reconcile the way that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, the gorgeous and the tragic. Except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out. I see a middle-aged woman in the waiting room of the...
02029 – Authentic Conversion
Before conversion, we tend to think that God is out there. After transformation, God is not out there and we don’t look at reality. We look from reality. We’re in the middle of it now; we’re a part of it. This whole thing is...
01589 – The Moment We Fail to Hold Each Other…
This is why one must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found — and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is... For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always...
00468 – The Gift of Grace
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever...