“Though my life is like grass that grows one day and withers away the next, God is so permanent, so unbending, so eternal, He makes the rocks look like vapors in the wind, the earth itself look like a drop… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I felt so lost in my addiction, I believed that no one was capable of understanding or helping me. I thought I was uniquely… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“That’s when it finally hit home—God is not a pile of bricks or a collection of outdated rules—He is a living, breathing, Being. No… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I didn’t realize that there would always be something influencing my decisions and weighing in on my life. At this moment weed was calling… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Common sense told me that I didn’t want to lie to my family constantly, steal all the time, and drug myself into a coma.… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“If you use sex whenever you want with whomever you want, you’re treating it like trash, like it means nothing. Imagine a piece of… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“As I sat on the floor in the corner of the concrete block, it felt as if the last domino had fallen in my… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I was no longer missing a piece. Jesus had taken all my insufficiencies, washed them away, and filled the very core of my being… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“God could not overlook the plight of the orphan or the widow, the victim of genocide, war, or rape; He could not turn His… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I’d been so used to the court system and thinking of myself as a criminal. I’d been so used to pleading in abeyance, proclaiming… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I tried to think and hope for the best, but it didn’t change who I was. It didn’t change my core, my desires, my… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“We live in a world full of contracts. When someone fails to meet the outlined terms of the contract, we seek a better suitor.… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Perhaps life’s simplest and most frequent mistake is to take who we are for granted in our anxious anticipation of who we might be.… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Each year there are new scientific breakthroughs, many of which contradict the old ones. Blinding myself by becoming set in my bigoted, limited perspective… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“When the eternal God looked at my record and said, “Michael is found guilty, the penalty of his crimes is death and his crimes… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I was told that even if I had years of sobriety, I would always be an addict, and I believed it. Since my identity… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
