Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

Hurry always empties a soul.

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

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

You were made for the place where your real #‎ passion meets #‎ compassion because there lies your real purpose.

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.

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