Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

Do fish get cramps after eating?