We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn

God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!

How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.