God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

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

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.