I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

We're all travelers, all sojourners.

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on.