Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Sometimes something that you've been asking forIt's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong, And that was there the whole time all along.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.

I have a lot of new music that I'm very excited about.