For, if we’re really going to give ourselves the best of ourselves, we have to be honest with the worst of ourselves.

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

Accountability is where the cowardice of my teetering self-image is wrangled into submission by the force of my ethics.

To do something that’s just a ‘little bit less’ than the right thing is to do a whole lot of the wrong thing.

It’s not about what we do today. It’s about who we are everyday.

To release ourselves from accountability to our choices is to say that we can be ‘reckless’ without causing a ‘wreck.’ And maybe that’s why the road of life looks more like a parking lot.

If we do not determine to aspire to that which we write about, we should rid ourselves of every single sheet of paper and discard every pen that we would use to write upon them.

The next shooting will come. And when it does, we will do absolutely everything within our power to avoid addressing the real issue. And the only answer that I have for an insanity of this magnitude is that we are infinitely more committed to building a culture that feeds our greed than constructing a culture that rests in God.

Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down for a moment and be honest with myself, I’ll rather reluctantly admit that I drew the map.