There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living..

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living..

Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘make….

Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. N….

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father..

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives..

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us..

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful..

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: ….

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is..

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems..

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else..

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the goo….

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love..

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart..

I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknow….

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods bu….

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all t….

Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and rea….

The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. Th….

Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing..