Real Live Preacher

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.

Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

I?m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.