There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago did I realize that this book covers a seven-year period in the history of ancient Israel in which they literally went undefeated.They did have one setback, but outside of that, they defeated over 30 kings. They recaptured the Promised Land. They did what their ancestors said they could not.

Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone.

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.