Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times – it’s ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn’t only a celebration when good things happen. It’s a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn’t that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we’re tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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 realized that this pregnancy that she didn’t want – perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
I want a life that makes music – not just practices the piano.
Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
God’s not out to get you – He’s out to give to you.