The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.

Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.