Some days, you need forty-four sunsets.

the crushing weight of total depravity can lead to insanity. i must move on to unconditional election. it's true: there is not a single damn reason for my salvation. not one.

I wanted to listen to something beautiful and undeserved, so I went to church and called my girlfriend.

One of my students was responding to a prompt that I put up: "What motivates you the most?" She wrote about how her mother was her biggest motivation. Here's an excerpt from her writing: "She doesn't need to tell me how much she loves me because all she does is something bigger than that word." I need to do more than I speak.