Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

Many of us say we want to experience God, but we don’t look for his majesty. [Tweet this] We travel life’s paths with our heads down, focused on the next step with our careers or families or retirement plans. But we don’t really expect God to show up with divine wonder.

Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.