The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

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

More important than a clean house is a close family.

Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

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