People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.
What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two – love and controlling power over the other person – are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
The best team does not always win, it’s the team that plays the best.
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God’s love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It’s taking flesh and turning it back into words.
To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
Sociologically, large groups of people don’t generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.
I think that at the core of faith is trust.
Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.
We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.
What’s interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.
I think that grace and love always rattle people.
I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every single one of them for coming. Which a lot of people take me up on! So I get to meet hundreds and hundreds of people every night, night after night.
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
There’s way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that’s going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you’re about to take.
The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn’t like what I do or doesn’t understand it, then it wasn’t for them.
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that’s it.
Grace is when you aren’t striving or controlling or trying to change or manipulate or make something happen. Grace is when you find yourself carried along, when all that’s left to do is receive. Grace is when you know you’re loved, exactly as you are. Grace is an entirely different way of experiencing life. Another word for grace is gift.
Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don’t apologize for them, treat them, even the small things, like they’re big things.