THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.