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.

The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.