A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.

Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.