We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.

That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church how she would really look better if she had this in her hair, or that over there, I think I'm just respecting the Groom's pick.

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

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.