I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.