The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

When you invest your time, you are investing your life.

Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.