Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don't apologize for them, treat them, eve… - Rob Bell

I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

We cannot earn what we have always had. What we can do is trust that what God keeps insisting is true about us is actually true.