"Oh Lord, I reckon I am not much just by myself. I failed to do a lot of things I ought to do. But Lord, when trails are steep and passes high, Help me ride it straight the whole way through. And when in the falling dusk I get the final call, I do not care how many flowers they send~ Above all else the happiest trail would be for you to say to me, ... read more

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement."

-- From Joe versus the Volcano... read more

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

- Audre Lorde... read more

Today many would say that Christians have become major purveyors of exclusion, guilt, and shame for too many of its own people, and surely for the other religions, instead of absorbing shame, healing guilt, and living in solidarity with human suffering as Jesus did so clearly on the cross. No wonder so many no longer take us seriously. We are so un... read more