Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.
When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.
There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.
There's never the right last moment. Even if you get to say good-bye, even if you get to say "I love you", even if you jump off a plane and get a tattoo and hug everyone you've ever met right before you drift off with a smile, it is never the right last moment. There is always more to say, somewhere to go, something to remember. Another discussion, another fight. There is always supposed to be another day.
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning. . . and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you.
Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
Football is important, but it is never more important than life.
TEAMWORK. . . means never having to take all the blame yourself.