Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.