When we hold our thoughts up against God’s standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.
Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.
One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can’t be taught. Frankly, I don’t understand this point of view.
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.
Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.
What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.
Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.
When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.
When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.
Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.
One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
God is immutable – He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!
It’s one thing to have a goal, but it’s quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.