When we lose the belief in ‘something better’ we’ve embraced the belief in ‘all things worse.’ And such a perspective is based less on things being worse, and more on our inability to believe that we can make it better.

Life is less about keeping myself from falling and more about who I have around me when I do.

What I need is not that which I find, for what I need is far bigger than my ability to find it. What I need is that which finds me. Hence, Christmas.

If I were to eliminate all of the things that I ‘want,’ I would be left with all of the things that I ‘need.’ And inevitably, such an action would leave me standing before God caught up in the stunning realization that in Him is everything that I ‘want’ and all that I ‘need.’ And how is it that I could not ‘need’ God and ‘want’ both?

At the very instance where I simply kneel and say “help,” the vast distance that I created between where I am and where God is no longer ‘is.

Because we don’t ‘want’ God in no ways means that we don’t ‘need’ Him. And if we confuse the two, we might get what we want but we will die for lack of what we need.

If life’s bigger than any of us individually or all of us collectively, then there must be something bigger than us to walk us through it.

I expend my days relentlessly attempting to design my life in a manner that is designed to meet the needs in my life. Yet, God did not design life to do that. Rather, He designed life to direct us to Him so that He could do that.

In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.