The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

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.

If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you dont play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.