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.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

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

Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

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