If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

Jesus is not "out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all - all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help" (Heb. 4:15 - 16 MSG).

Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether it be polygamy, whether it be divorce, whether it be a marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. The ideal would be a man and a woman under a covenant of God's blessing.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.