Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

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.

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.