If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I’d still do it–for fun and for free.

I remembered something Father Michael said to me a the monastery. ‘The human soul is meant to expand. Things that once captured your heart may no longer be able to contain it.

He appreciated you. But he couldn’t feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can’t you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?

I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. And he was angry. He...

There’s a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

Just say it: I’m angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don’t you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole...

It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that’s really what...