Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really….

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether o….

I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in th….

This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear….

To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, ….

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us….

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much..

The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing since the beginning ….

There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broke….

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling..

This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This is i….

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do….

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know exis….

I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, ….

I want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while I'm longing for something more. The longing and the gratitude, ….

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who l….

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming..

Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, kn….

We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one an….

I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing el….

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is..