How to be a better preacher

That’s easy. Increase your life. Live your life more fully. And pay attention to it…Stay as alive as you dare, and trust that your life with all its unorthodox twists and turns is still God’s territory. Dare to tell some stories that don’t sound like religious stories. Use some language that doesn’t sound like it belongs in church. Read fiction. Take clogging lessons. Go be alive, so that you yourself are a sermon about abundant life. Then whatever you say will be worth listening to. (Barbara Brown Taylor)