Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.