If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.