Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

The moment Mary touched God's face is the moment God made his case: there's no place he will not go.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.