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 are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

The most important things in your home are people.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

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

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

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.