Finding a way through grief

 I hadn’t known until that day...Grief is like caged fear. 

And if you let enough tears come and not be afraid, the tears can wash away the walls, and you will breathe again. 

It will hurt. 

You may never fully recover. 

But who wants to cover over the memories of them and all the ways their love opened us up? 

Wherever our hearts are broken open, their love lives on forever in us right there. 

And that’s the thing: It’s the broken hearts that find the haunting loveliness of a new beat — it’s the broken hearts that make a song that echoes God’s. 

Pay no mind to anything that tries to tell you different: Grief is the guaranteed price we pay for love.

If you hold the past too tightly, your arms have no room for the present — no room for the gifts of now.

There’s a way to let the burn of your pain become a fuel for your way.

What is my greatest fear?

What is my greatest motivator?

What is Truth?

Who is God?

What is Success?

Unless you ask yourself the right questions, your life will never live into the right answers.

The greatest motivator can be fear. 

This will kill you 

The greatest fear can be that grace and God will run out and there won’t be enough — we won’t be enough. 

This fear is a fraud. 

Let go of the lie.

All fear is executed with one line: There is enough. 

All fear shrivels when you serenade it with one refrain: There is abundance. 

There is always more — because God is always here. 

There is enough. God is enough — and He makes everything enough.

The only reality is relationship.

Because Truth is God — if you don’t make time for intimacy with Him, the lies of everything else make you insane.

When you make islands of intimacy with God, you can survive any storm.

Love is not always agreement with someone, but it is always sacrifice for someone. 

Success is showing up and kneeling down.

There are a handful of questions that are always waiting to take our hand and find a way through.