The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.

Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.