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.

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

I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.