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

With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

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.