Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.

Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.