I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in m….

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy..

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly..

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?.

Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life..

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced..

Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging h….

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained fr….

Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the ….

Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul..

The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling..

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privileg….

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection..

Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep….

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blog….

We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or t….

The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a pract….

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story..

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is..

What is time for if not to bless?.