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

God understands how you feel and has faced what you face.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.