But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.

I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

And so I just kept writing to myself.

Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.

I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.

The voice sang on, “I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.” I played it again. I was not fine.

Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. “You’re worthy.” Stamp. “You’re enough.” “You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you, ” and I was now living that mantra.

I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.

I am an ordinary person.

Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

I think I suffer from some mild depression.