My stupidity need not be the end of me, for if I surrender my stupidity to God it will in fact become the beginning of me.

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

We might wish to take note of the fact that it is within the impoverishment of our own thinking that we create these innumerable strategies which we brazenly herald as the means to mankind’s salvation. And the means by which to halt the incessant travesties that this failed reality repeatedly births is to acknowledge the impoverishment of our relationship with the God who has already secured our salvation.

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

Unlike mankind, I have concluded that God never guesses. And unlike mankind, I have likewise concluded that God never makes mistakes that He’s left trying to guess His way out of.

It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.

The ‘death of me’ is most often caused by the ignorance within me that’s killing everything that God is doing around me.

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down for a moment and be honest with myself, I’ll rather reluctantly admit that I drew the map.