Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.