Perking up, the little girl said, “Is your head hurt mister, ‘cause you keep rubbing it?”Pausing, David said, “Ah, no. Sometimes it’s just the thoughts that hurt.

When our lives are difficult beyond description, we must remember that our God is good beyond explanation.

I rather quickly discovered that to find the ‘easy way’ all I have to do is take the ‘right way’ and prune it down to the point that it doesn’t demand anything of me. But despite its rather dubious appearance of ease, what it ends up demanding of me is my integrity. And there’s nothing ‘easy’ about giving that up.

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

Because some decision hurts us beyond measure does not mean that that decision is wrong beyond explanation, for some of the most vital decisions we will ever make are often the most painful ones that we will ever experience.

The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.