When grief is deepest, words are fewest..

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest..

So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging..

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus..

I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt a….

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born..

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me..

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change..

God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy..

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ..

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker..

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language ….

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle..

The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sen….

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on th….

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment..

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash.

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love..

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective..

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks..