Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.