Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

More important than a clean house is a close family.

On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

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