When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.

Feeding people is a way of loving them.

I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.