The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.