We Are Too Often Double Espresso Followers

The Problem With Spending Your Life Climbing Up The Ladder Is That You Will Go Right Past Jesus, For He's Coming Down.

Failure Is Not An Event, But Rather A Judgment About An Event. Failure Is Not Something That Happens To Us Or A Label We Attach To Things. It Is A Way We Think About Outcomes.

If We Are Serious About Loving God, We Must Begin With People, All People. And Especially We Must Learn To Love Those That The World Generally Discards.

Will You Keep Going When You Don't Know Why? When You Can't Get Any Answers That Would Make The Pain Go Away, Will You Still Say, 'my Lord,' Even Though His Ways Are Not Clear To You? Will You Keep Going-with All The Grace And Grit And Faith You Can Muster-and Live In Hope That One Day God Will Set Everything Right. Will You Trust That God Is Good? ... Ultimately, The Choice Everyone Faces Is The Choice Between Hope And Despair. Jesus Says, 'choose Hope.'

We Are Tempted To Live Under The Illusion That Somewhere Out There Are People Who Are Normal.