Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.

Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

There is something about keeping Him divine that keeps Him distant, packaged, predictable. But don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him be as human as He intended to be. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let Him in can He pull us out.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.