Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

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

When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.