All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.