Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

We were meant to enjoy life, not be drowned by it.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.