Joy emanates out of the abiding sense of God’s fierce love for us.

Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

Always remain suspicious that God is up to something good.

Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.