We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

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

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

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

That's why it's hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line from the Bible, but it's so incredibly difficult sometimes, because when you've got reason to rejoice, you forget what it's like to mourn, even if you swear you never will. And because when you're mourning, the fact that someone close to you is rejoicing seems like a personal affront.

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

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether or not we admit it.