The way through the waiting is in walking side by side with Christ; and the way back to His side is through praise.

Sometimes we mourn what was and should have been, and there is nothing in the now that makes it all ok.

Instead of preserving his character with distance, the angel asks Joseph to sully his name, tarnish his reputation and shoulder those assumptions alongside Mary.

The greatest miracle of that first Christmas is not that a virgin gave birth, or even that a deity would choose to dwell with us, but that he would choose to dwell AS us.

Being full of thanks is a habit to be cultivated for every day, one which will naturally lead to expressing that thanks in giving.

We struggle to forgive because we compare the offender's sin to our own.

God doesn't give patience; He cultivates it.

I came to a point where the option of walking away from God, of living as though He did not exist, was on the table.

The more faithfully I turn my straying thoughts to Christ, the more I will look like Him.

We live as though God opened a bank account in our name when He brought us into the family and deposited a certain amount of forgiveness in it.