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.

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

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.