My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. And such was the carnage that he never spoke of it right up to his dying day. Therefore, we might consider that it was the sacrifices that he witnessed, and the pain of comrades lost that he carried to his own grave that are but a tiny part of the inestimable price paid for the liberties that we abuse.

With God, my brokenness is nothing more than the platform from which He can demonstrate why He is God.

The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis of overestimating it.

If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will be two less holes.

Don’t think for a minute that the person next to you is not as wounded as you are. For if you can’t see their wounds, it’s likely that you have not made it safe enough for them to show them to you because you don’t feel safe enough to risk them seeing yours.

I don’t care’ is code for ‘I do care.’ But to deny the code is in fact ‘code’ for ‘I don’t want to be hurt.’ And in life, no amount of ‘coding’ is going to keep that from happening.

The only time that we stop bleeding is when we stop breathing. And could it be that since bleeding is such a part of this existence that it’s not just about being wounded? Could it be that it’s in dealing with the bleeding that we develop the strength to overcome the wound?

Once our fears are conquered, what was once a mighty storm becomes a passing drizzle.