My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

Enjoy it, learn from it and more than anything, never take your health for granted. Don’t just seize the day. Seize the moment. Every single one.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

People give up the earth for beauty.

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Remember the death penalty is murder.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.