The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.