Although I am convinced otherwise, what I ‘want’ empties me of all that I could ever need, while what I ‘need’ fills me with all that I could ever want. It’s just that I tend to have that all backwards most of the time, so I am empty all of the time.

Words caught in the warm wrap of melodies can deliver those words with a potency unimagined.

The greatest asset in my pain is the power that it has to bring healing to the life of another, of which I myself am included.

There is a purpose in our pain that is greater than the pain itself. Therefore, to miss that purpose is the truest essence of our pain.

The purpose in our pain will always exceed the amount of pain that was necessary to deliver that purpose to us.

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

Why in the world have we never found what we’re really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won’t accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.

What we’re searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us.

To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.