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

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

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

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?

When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.