I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.

If life’s bigger than any of us individually or all of us collectively, then there must be something bigger than us to walk us through it.

To give myself over in the service of others may mean that I will forfeit everything that I want, but it also means that I will receive everything that I need. And if I am not big enough to let go of the former, then I am not yet big enough to handle the latter.

I can tell you that God has repeatedly ‘raised me up’ in the middle of the innumerable situations where ‘up’ had become a hope lost in the darkness of the places to which I had fallen. And while that is the miracle of my story, it sits waiting to be the reality of yours.

I expend my days relentlessly attempting to design my life in a manner that is designed to meet the needs in my life. Yet, God did not design life to do that. Rather, He designed life to direct us to Him so that He could do that.

In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.

I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.

My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.

The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.