Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

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.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

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

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?