What does it mean—to be a light in the darkness? What's a practical way to let the light in you shine? We have to shine brightly, because the less we shine, the lower the light, the longer the shadows. "If you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, [...]
You know when you watch chick flicks and they're lying on the car on some overlook pointing out the stars, and one of them starts naming the constellations. Writers put stuff like that into books and movies because it triggers our spirit-soul connection with the source of all creativity. And when you're outdoors yourself some [...]
Some people only seem to come alive when they're complaining. Don't make that your rocket power for living or you'll never make it to the moon.
Some people have really crappy things happen to them, People betray them or let them down, money is tight, the struggle can be constant. But what I’ve found with people who only focus on those things is: if they look back over their lives for happy moments, they will invariably find some. Which makes me [...]
Remember [your Creator]—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well, and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecc. 12:6). Words speak life or death, [...]
An adventure is, by its nature, a thing that comes to us. It is a thing that chooses us, not a thing that we choose. Falling in love has been often regarded as the supreme adventure, the supreme romantic accident. In so much as there is in it something outside ourselves, something of a sort [...]
