I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

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

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.

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.