We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

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.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.