I never dreamed of publication and I never thought about success. Sometimes I wonder what it is doing to me as a person. I really value being good.
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn`t move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
I`ve traveled to 50 countries, but I`ve never been to heaven.
I feel the garment of Christ being pulled over our shoulders. I am new... I finally sleep, wrapped in the beauty of the word, Savior.
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn`t release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn`t grasping for anything.
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.