We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can’t help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the portrait of me painted by God simply because that is a picture at which the world can’t help but marvel.

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.