You’ve got to use the life you’ve been given to give others life.
The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don’t see God, I’ll bow down before something else.
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
You, who were made by Love, made for love – be still and know and watch love come down.
Stress isn’t only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
Only speak words that make souls stronger.
You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
I don’t really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I’ve an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God’s back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven – that kind of distance.
At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn’t that the same thing as prostitution?
That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn’t that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we’re tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
God’s not out to get you – He’s out to give to you.