I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the suffering and love in the chaos.
. . .after the shadows comes light.
To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.
It is our tendency to look at people as opposed to looking into them.
Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.