When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.