One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

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.