The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives.

Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out.

All of us are embarrassed by some of what we are.

No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are really following a higher principle, a transcendent truth. In spiritual followership, people want to know whether they are being led and influenced by God.

There is only one line of sight that will bring order to all our life and work: a vision of Christ seated at the right hand of God the Father, ruling with all justice and mercy. Our influence only means something if it is plotted along that trajectory, and our work ultimately leads people to that same goal.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.