Baby, if you’re reading this, I probably like you more than you think—and yes, I’d let you sit by me at lunch. But you’ve got to quit being so hard on the person in the mirror. Give it a rest. You do not become better by tearing yourself down. You don’t grow by running your own name into the...

Baby, if you don’t feel loved, you’re not unloved — you’re overwhelmed, distracted, or listening to the wrong voice. My Savior did not politely suggest affection. He stepped into death, tore it open, and walked back out breathing. That’s not mild fondness. That’s covenant love. That’s blood...

Say YES today. Not the flimsy yes that people toss around to be polite. Not the exhausted yes that means “I guess so.” The real one. The kind that comes from the strange and stubborn truth that Jesus already said YES to you — loudly, completely, sacrificially — and nothing in heaven or...