“I would sooner walk in the dark and hold hard to a promise of God, than to trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.”...

"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace,...

"It does not matter what your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your situation has not changed, you...

Deep into the belly of Autumn now, the trees almost flare in vivid color. They stand aglow in scarlet shades, quite impossible to miss,...

"...people only harvest what they plant." (Galatians 6:7) It is now grape harvesting season along the earth's Northern Hemisphere. A...

"You change your life by changing your heart". - Max Lucado The heart is an amazing, unbelievably hard-working organ. It is responsible...

“Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.” – Sam Storms As I have watched the Olympic games over the...

"For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10 NIV)...

“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” – Leo Christopher The phrase "time-out" has changed...

“Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted,...

"For the beauty of the earth For the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies. Lord of all, to Thee...

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” - Ralph Waldo Ellison The longer I live, (which is awhile now) the more people I have met who...

"He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken." Psalm 62:2 The recent and shocking event of the...

You held my nervous hand as we first saw their tapping heartbeats on the blinking ultrasound screen and we both fell deep, without a...

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson The above quote leads me to a place on my mind's hazy horizon,...

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” - William Morris Around this time each year...

Today, my family and I are at the camper's hide-away at Lake Merwin. It sits above a sleepy town of two small stores, a restaurant and...

“Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical...

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” - Charles Dickens Look around and listen on any given day and it...

“MOTHER IS WATER" - Poem by Suzy Kassem I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know I...