Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

God knows what it's like to lose a son.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.

This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.