One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!