Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Story is the language of the heart.

Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all -- aren't we 'followers of Christ'? Then by all means, let's actually follow him. Not ideas about him. Not just his principles. Him.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?