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

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

God is good and I am always loved.