Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.