Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

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

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.

Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.