Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never “produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

Take something away, and your habits become clear.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.