We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.