Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.