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

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

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

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

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.