We need to make our faith our very own love story.

I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.

I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.