The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.