That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

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.

What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on

It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

I'm saying, that just kept, messing it up for everybody! And then everybody on your team doesn't have that drive that you have.

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.