To Be Alive Is To Be Broken;

God Loves You Unconditionally, As You Are And Not As You Should Be, Because Nobody Is As They Should Be.

The Spirituality Of Wonder Knows The World Is Charged With Grace, That While Sin And War, Disease And Death Are Terribly Real, God's Loving Presence And Power In Our Midst Are Even More Real.

Without Exposure To Potential Failure, There Is No Risk.

Rome Is Burning, Jesus Says. Drop Your Fiddle, Change Your Life And Come To Me. Let Go Of The Good Days That Never Were - A Regimented Church You Never Attended, Traditional Virtues You Never Practiced, Legalistic Obedience You Never Honored, And A Sterile Orthodoxy You Never Accepted. The Old Era Is Done. The Decisive Inbreak Of God Has Happened.

Whenever I Allow Anything But Tenderness And Compassion To Dictate My Response To Life--be It Self-righteous Anger, Moralizing, Defensiveness, The Pressing Need To Change Others...i Am Alienated From My True Self. My Identity As Abba's Child [a Child Of God] Becomes Ambiguous, Tentative And Confused