You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.

Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.

Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.