I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.

Manna today or I starve.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

[Bill Jensen] 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.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

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.