Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.

But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.