Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

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

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