Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.

You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So

The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days—listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold.

You wouldn't be a writer if reading hadn't enriched your soul more than other pursuits.

In good fiction, we have one eye on the hero or the good guys and a fascinated eye on the bad guys, who may be a lot more interesting. The plot leads all of these people (and us) into dark woods where we find, against all odds, a woman or a man with the compass, and it still points true north. That's the miracle, and it's astonishing. This shaft of light, sometimes only a glimmer, both defines and thwarts the darkness.

What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

We can be frozen by the chaos we feel inside instead of choosing to stand on the truth of who God's Word says we are. We must not give our enemy such advantages. We must not live that way one moment longer. It's time to trade what we feel for the powerful truth of who we are. How we feel can change in a moment, but who we are is eternal.

While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we

The greatest defense against the storm of lies that the enemy would use to drain every moment of joy from your life is to surround yourself with the truth of God's Word.

This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." (JEREMIAH 6:16)

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.