We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of site. Out of mind.

the government bailed out the corporate sector. while the people thay supported the government financally, were ignored and left to fend for themselves. is this what you call democracy?

The ruling passion be it what it will the ruling passion conquers reason still.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Homemade' sounds much better when not referring to tattoos.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it.