I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.