When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

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 you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.