Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

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.

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.

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

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.