By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.