I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

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

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.