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

To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.