“What if God’s ‘NO,’ is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.”

God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You.

Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I’m not.

Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.

Remember: even the smallest drop of God’s strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.

Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Just because we feel offended doesn’t mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

The one who obey’s God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let’s park our minds in God’s truth.

God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It’s the decision to stay the same.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God’s power.

If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

Gifts are meant to be wrapped. Honestly, it’s basic etiquette.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.

You have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.