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.

I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

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.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.