A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.