Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.