If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.