I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.

The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.

I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.