God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.