I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.

You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

Convictions are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

I know you feel decimated, but don't let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

I'm saying that storms happen - cancer happens. Accidents happen. We can either run from them, hide from them, or....go through them. God is with us in all of those situations. But yeah, some of his best people are pressed out, shaken, fermented...aged through circumstances or time.