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.

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.