We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.