You can't heal the people you love.You can't rescue them.You can promise that they won't journey alone.You can loan them your map.But this trip is theirs. Be gentle with yourself--it's hard work to be present to the freedom of the Other.
Not I, nor anyone else,can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It is within reach.Perhaps you have been on it since you were born,and did not know.Perhaps it is everywhere--on water and land.
Set yourselves apart from this corrupt generation. Be saints. You were not made to fit in. You were born to stand out.
Once having the vision [of a God-intoxicated life], the second step to holy obedience is this: Begin where you are. Obey now. Use what little obedience you are capable of, even if it be like a grain of mustard seed. Live this present moment...as you now sit in your...
One evening soon after, Sandy and I fell into a conversation about...the crow in the tree. Sandy said, "You know what came to mind when I saw that crow perched over us? I thought of the Native American proberb about the eagle and the crow in each of us. The eagle...
The life you clutch, hoard, guard, and play safe with is in the end a life worth little to anybody, including yourself, and only a life given away for love's sake is a life worth living. from Listening to Your Life
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
If there is nowhere where you have given me a place to which we can just flee away in order to find you, and if everything can be the loss of you, the One, then I must also be able to find you in everything. Otherwise, humanity couldn't find you at all--humanity that...
Belonging is belonging to yourself first, speaking your truth, telling your story, and never betraying yourself for other people.