Thanksgiving creates abundance.

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.

Love as if it is eternal. Love when you are alive and when you are not alive.

Recent global challenges suggest the themes in "The RISING SEDITION" foreshadow fiction becoming reality!! RT

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.