I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

I honestly do not know who convinced America's blue collar workers that the federal government was set up to protect them, but I suspect it was P.T. Barnum or some preacher turned politician.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

I just think it would be easier to trust God if I had extra money to trust him with.