We're all rough drafts of the people we're becoming.

Faith isn't a business trip walked on a sidewalk; it's an adventure worked out on a steep and sometimes difficult trail.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

The world can make you think that love can be picked up at a garage sale or enveloped in a Hallmark card. But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence.

Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

Jesus talked to His friends a lot about how we should identify ourselves. He said it wouldn’t be what we said we believed or all the good we hoped to do someday. Nope, He said we would identify ourselves simply by how we loved people. It’s tempting to think there is more to it, but there’s not. Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

There’s a difference between good judgment and living in judgment.

Sadly, whenever I make my opinions more important than the difficult people God made, I turn the wine back into water.