That's the beautiful mystery: we have a God who chooses to need us. We have a God who doesn't want to change the world without us. We have a God who longs to cooperate with us, to allow us to fail and flounder and who promises to make up for our shortcomings, but nonetheless wants us.

this: for some strange reason, God doesn't want to change the world without us. There are times when we throw our hands up at God and say, "Do something!" and if we listen closely, we can hear God respond, "I did do something. I made you." Sometimes we are waiting on God, and God is waiting on us. When

God did not become a servant so that we could order him around but so that we could join him in a redemptive life.

The humanist believes that humankind, as individuals, is called upon to co-create the world with God. This is why he values human life so highly. In his view, things do progress, life does evolve; each individual has value, at least potentially, in advancing this cause.

So while God gives the husband a position of leadership in relationship to his wife, He also requires the price of self-sacrifice from him. The

prayer is not telling God what to do. It's partnering with God to do what He wants.

To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.

Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good.

Without Ruth's partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

The adventure of collaborating with God involves bestowing the greatest gift a person can receive — the gift of amazing grace — on undeserving (and often unsuspecting) people like you and me.