It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.