In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

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. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

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

Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.

God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.