Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.
Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.
Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.
Success--something your friends will never forgive you.
The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?
In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.
Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted, and we really need to begin to challenge, look at it and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either.
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.