Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.