Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.