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I had to lean firmly into my grief until I didn’t need to anymore. I still believed that I deserved to feel the way that I was feeling. I still believed that I needed my grief in order to recognize myself. I needed to have him, so that I could know me.

"How am I supposed to help guide this family through a circumstance that I just barely made it through myself when I was younger?"

"How am I supposed to help guide this family through a circumstance that I just barely made it through myself when I was younger?"

I always say, "I'm sorry for your loss" to my families with good intentions. But, sometimes, I feel like I’m not being completely honest with them. It isn’t because I’m not sorry for their losses, it’s because that isn’t really the phrase that I should be saying to them. In my mind, I mean to be saying, “I’m sorry that I don’t have experience enough in my own life to understand your pain, and I’m sorry that I can’t be more for you in your grief.”

"Shame was a barometer for knowing if I had put myself too far out there. Shame let me know when I needed to reel it in, and become smaller. That’s the thing about shame: He wants us small enough to fit inside of his pocket."

"My grief was insidious. He looked like me, and spoke in the tone of my voice. He knew my inflections, and influenced my facial expressions. He was more comfortable in my skin than I had ever dared to be. My grief appeared meek, but he stood firmly atop the crown of my heart. Always. But, I didn’t try to escape him. I believed that I needed to hold onto my grief, because I loved the memory of what gave him to me. I truly loved the person who left the charred, blistering imprint on my chest."

I have always known grief, and I always will. If I'm honest, my roots have been anchored in grief most of my life. The only thing that's different about it now is the outcome.

Jesus IS NOT A SURVIVAL KIT! HE'S THE ANSWER TO A NEW LIFE.

The new Earth is not reached through effort. It is stabilized through coherence.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

We are all made of star stuff.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Creativity takes courage.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.