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.

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.