Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

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