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

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

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.

The kind of new beginnings that transform our lives are less about what we do in our lives, and more about what we deliver into the life of another.