One of my all time favorite bands is Relient K, a Christian punk-pop band that got its start in the late 90s and is still around today. My favorite song of theirs, "Be My Escape" (released in 2004), is about how God wants to set us free when we feel trapped, often in prisons of our own making. There's a line in the second verse that has shaped my faith more than almost any other song I know. And this life sentence that I'm serving I admit that I'm every bit deserving But the

Back in high school, my friends and I discovered a website called despair.com. If you've never seen it, they make "demotivational" posters, the opposite of those cheesy office posters with a mountain range and a word like PERSEVERANCE underneath it. Despair.com's version of that, under a picture of a struggling penguin, reads: "Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk." Another one of my favorites is called 'Mistakes.' It says, "It could be that t