You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.

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

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.

We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

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