No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.

What I’m left with when I have nothing left is the satisfaction of knowing that I left nothing for myself in the service of someone else.

I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.

I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.

Making it ‘all about me’ is making it all about no one else. And if I stop long enough to look around, I suddenly realize that a lot of ‘me’ without a lot ‘no one else’ is not a lot of anything.

Humility empties us of ourselves so that we can be filled with all of the things that we would otherwise never realize we had missed.

If we stand for nothing we will likely become nothing and subsequently achieve nothing, for nothing can only breed more of itself.

If we stand for nothing, it may be that we believe in nothing. And it may be that believing in nothing is the worst kind of believing of all.

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.