Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

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

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.