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

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.