What new and good thing is going to come out of even this? When you ask this question, you have taken something that was out of your control and reframed it as another opportunity to take part in the ongoing creation of the world.

It's at the end of ourselves that new futures open up.

It's very common to hear talk about heaven framed in terms of who "gets in" or how to "get in." What we find Jesus teaching, over and over and over again, is that he's interested in our hearts being transformed, so that we can actually handle heaven.

heaven has the potential to be a kind of starting over. Learning how to be human all over again. Imagine living with no fear.

Particles couldn't contain the fullness of Spirit, and that led to something new.

That's what Spirit does, it brings about new creation. And what was true thirteen billion years ago is true now.

The universe is unfinished, and God is looking for partners in the ongoing creation of the world.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

No, this is no beginning. Then an end? End is a gloomy word.

This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen...

An existing individual is constantly in process of becoming,... and translates all his thinking into terms of process. It is with (him)... as it is with a writer and his style; for he only has a style who never has anything finished, but 'moves the waters of the language' every time he begins, so that the most common expression comes into being for him with the freshness of a new birth.