Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.

Dear God thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us of loving each other the best we can even as you love us. We pray in Christs name Amen.

What We WantWhat we wantis never simple.We move among the thingswe thought we wanteda face a room an open bookand these things bear our names --now they want us.But what we want appearsin dreams wearing disguises.We fall pastholding out our armsand in the morningour arms ache.We dont remember the dreambut the dream remembers us.It is there all dayas an animal is thereunder the tableas the stars are there.

We can be tired weary and emotionally distraught but after spending time alone with God we find that He injects into our bodies energy power and strength.

Dont simply exist in this world but grasp lifes potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life historicala gripping account of accomplishment. Make life a mysterya challenging bold adventure. Make life heartfeltan enduring poetic romance. Whatever it is you make of your world live the fairytale.

I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams uncensored communication no tiresome small talk sucking up to impress or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth get ready for it.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God in answering it will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there like a meeting room in a prison. Youre both in the same room yet on different sides and really in different worlds.

The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Prayer can solve more problems alleviate more suffering prevent more transgression and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.