I came to let you know, God is not going to his authenticity be destroyed.

Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition.

When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life - I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me.

I said God, I want to spend the rest of my life helping people, and felt a real call through a divine moment, an encounter with God. I went to my pastor and said I have a call of God to preach. He put a broom in my hand, and I began to sweep the church.

I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder.