In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.