Until you begin treating your relationship with God as a lover pursuing a lover, the hole in your heart yearning for quick fixes will remain.

“Hit me instead.” My older brother’s voice trembles as he stands between my mother and the crying misery that is me.

Yet, our obedience throws us from our rocking boat into a raging ocean.

It sounds heretical, but as one who despised the very nature of reading, nothing was as uninteresting as the Bible.