You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.