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

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us.

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

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

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.