Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.