To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures.

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

To avoid the fall often means living a less-than life.

Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Every man or woman is born to be a Hero!

One if by land, two if by sea.

No empty words and gestures, but hands filled with hands, hands pointing the way, hands tracing new lines as age slowly creases its course from the corners of my eyes.

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

For one who knows me, I am one with him; for one who wants to know me, I am very near to him; and for one who does not know me, I am a beggar before him.

I don't know what I believe.

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

Time is not money. Time is worth way more than money.