The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message….

I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to some….

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully..

A lack of doxology leads to depravity..

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held..

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer a….

Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on t….

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors..

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough..

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me ….

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything..

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shin….

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and t….

That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words..

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible..

Manna today or I starve..

I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God..

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency..

God gives us time. And who has time for God?.

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling..

God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God an….