The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

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

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.