If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.