Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.

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.

...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.

I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.

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

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves