Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.