One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Food is a great way of communicating.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.