Prayer Gets Us In On What God

The Hard Work Of Sowing Seed In What Looks Like Perfectly Empty Earth Has A Time Of Harvest. All Suffering, Pain, Emptiness, Disappointment Is Seed: Sow It In God And He Will, Finally, Bring A Crop Of Joy From It.

The Task Of The Prophet Is Not To Smooth Things Over But To Make Things Right.

You Don't Make Your Words True By Embellishing Them With Religious Lace. In Making Your Speech Sound More Religious, It Becomes Less True.

God Is The Larger Context And Plot In Which Our Stories Find Themselves.

There Is Nothing Terribly Difficult In The Bible - At Least In A Technical Way. The Bible Is Written In Street Language, Common Language. Most Of It Was Oral And Spoken To Illiterate People. They Were The First Ones To Receive It. So When We Make Everything Academic, We Lose Something.