God is constant. Always forgiving. Always loving. Never changing.

Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.

My "Christianity" was once again just the American religion of work hard, do good, feel good, and maybe God will say, "We good.

When I think of whisper, I think of tenderness, gentleness, beauty. And that was God's voice. The hard part with whispers, though, is we have to be listening for them. They are just loud enough that only the people listening will hear and those who are distracted won't.