This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.