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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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.
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.
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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.