Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.