If we wish to identify the truly great things in life, we can identify them by the fact that no matter how much we are exposed to them or how often we’re privileged to engage them, they remain great despite what our perception of them might do to them.

To think that ignoring something is to make it go away is to exercise some of the greatest imagination imaginable. And if there’s something that needs to go away, it’s that kind of imagination.

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.

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

If we rebel against the God who created us, there’s not much left to rebel against. And maybe that’s the point.

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?

I watched the sunset last night. And given the utter brilliance of it, I likely sat in the company of thousands who found themselves awash in its blaze of colors as well. But sadly, it is just as likely that I was surrounded by thousands of others who never saw the colors because they were awash in lesser things. And I realized that far too often I am in the company of those people. Therefore, I’ll be sitting outside tonight.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.