I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.

Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to person after person...May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about, and may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins.

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.