It is amazing what God has done with my “This I Believe” essay. Today I came across a podcast listing, where my recorded essay is listed as the 3rd most popular on This I Believe, which is incredible given the amount of celebrities on the site! Mine is just ahead of John McCain’s. (What! 😳)

This essay has been taught in colleges, elementary schools, and has a life of its own, entirely done by God. I remember scribbling this thing out, not editing it, and not thinking about it again until someone from NPR told me how popular it had become a few months later.

I would have done a lot of things differently in writing this, had I known what it would become. But I guess that’s the point, you don’t need to be perfect to have God do amazing things through our words, art, kindness, and all ways we choose to spend our time.

My Father Told Me I Was Fat