Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

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

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

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

All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.