First Community

I don’t always want freedom. I want security. I want comfort. I want nothing to go wrong, nobody I love to be hurt, to disappoint me. But that is not what Jesus offered. He offered life, and life more abundantly, and that means everything, the whole spectrum, laughter and tears, joy and disappointment, but above all life lived fully and openly and appreciatively. That is how Jesus lived, and how we are to live.
—Bright Evening Star

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
—The Rock That Is Higher