Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.

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

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.

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

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

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