“You were picking up the vibes off a guy who was supposed to be alive and scaring us, but who was—is—dead and scaring us?”

“They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.”

“But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?”

“If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them.”

“And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.”

“The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE”