Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
I want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.
Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.
It’s easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.
If your home is a ministry, shouldn’t that ministry become a passion? Shouldn’t your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn’t your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!
God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God’s Word.
God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.
When we acknowledge God’s supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.
It’s hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective’s personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
I’m interested in the dark side of man. I’m interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I’m trying to sleep.