Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

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.

God's big plan: go love everybody, always!

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.

We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.