Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable--they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belong. And, where you feel you belong is where you will stay.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

To be set aside is to be rejected.To be set apart is to be given an assignment that requires preparation.

Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infections. The need for belonging runs deep.

Now I'm not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaurant menu won't give you nourishment. We've got to engage with what's offered if it's going to do us any good. But putting my heart in a place to receive truth certainly got me going in a different direction.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.