As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

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

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.

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.

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

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