Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

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.

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.