a hospital for the broken, not a museum for the perfect.

What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. But hurting believers whose lives are in tatters often need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.

John Donne, the sixteenth-century poet, wrote these familiar but profound words: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.