How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in.

There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

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.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.