He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.