The act of striving itself is not sufficient to suggest that one is actually striving, for without an objective that is defined by the bigness of God and freed from the smallness of us we are only toddling about.

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.

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

Simply growing ‘up’ is far too limited. Rather, I want to grow in every direction.

Do not confuse trials with failure, as trials speak to the size of the thing to which we have been called and not the difficulties of the journey that are part of getting there.

To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place.