A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ..

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanks….

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace..

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano..

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and ….

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds..

Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God ….

I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One..

You were made for the place where your real #‎ passion meets #‎ compassion because there lies your real purpose..

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul..

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and….

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life..

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place….

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that ….

The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplis….

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle..

Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? An….

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act toward….

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is..