“How I felt on the drive home: Elated. Grateful. Full of love. Feeling loved by him, for him. Free. Desirous that my identity should be rooted in the Lord.

The sense was heavy upon me that the haters should have taken me out when they had the chance, and that a one who comes for the king best not miss. I felt, in a word, like a damn potentate.”

– excerpted from the author’s personal journals, July 2025