Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear