Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

In Dark Places, May we Never be truly Alone.....~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books

When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings

Every decision you make is a mistake.

I can't hide my feelings.

It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say Hey Mama

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.