Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.

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

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.

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.

But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.