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

Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.

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.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

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

If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.