Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.