When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

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

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.