Every time that God gives us a child, it's His way of saying He trusts us-trusts us to offer love and to guide the child toward Him.

She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

God made something special when He made you.

You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't?

Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done...it's about what been done for us.

But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail