Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.