I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

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.

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

Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

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.