Don't spend your life working and working for more and more just for the sake of it. It's a lost cause. 

Think of what Jesus said about seed planted on rocky ground (Matthew 13:20).

"Getting old is not for the faint of heart," is what people have told me also.

I have found acknowledging the sometimes-cruel reality of life leads to deeper healing.

Many of us wait for things to not work out the way we had hoped before we begin to ask God, What do I do?

G.K. Chesterton famously wrote, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

Scaring people to faith isn't a holy thing to do. But that verse always slows me down!

Part of our salvation is being freed from the cycles of animosity and hatred. 

We see God's true love in what the Lord did for us.

As difficult as it can be for us to show mercy, how many of us would be able to follow through with a calling like Hosea's?