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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced ... cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

If I am truly in Christ, mustn't my initial act, too, always be an act of thanksgiving, returning to Jesus with thanks on the lips?

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

Expectations kill relationships - especially with God.

Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.

He is perfect love and His perfect love kicks fear to the curb.

Love is not blind; love is the holy vision.

Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.

The wonder of all this - God looks at you at your lowest and loves you all the way up to the sky.

A day is a pocket of possibility and it's always there, waiting for your willing hand.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath ... It's all a gift.

Manna today or I starve.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

Take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

If you haven't lost Christ, child, nothing is ever lost.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

It is no use for you to attempt to sow out of an empty basket, for that would be sowing nothing but wind, wrote Spurgeon.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

In the endless cycle of grace, He gives us gifts to serve the world.

The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

God holds us in the untamed moments too.

Eucharisteo - thanksgiving - always precedes the miracle.

I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to daily practice the delight of God ...

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

The cure against the bite of thanklessness. The remedy is in the retina. How we behold determines if we hold joy. Behold glory and be held by God.

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection.

You only begin to change your life when you begin to change the way you see.

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant - a seed - this plants the giant miracle.

Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in a week.

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

The whole earth is full of His glory. Sky, land, and sea, heavy and saturated with God
why do I always forget?

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

Isn't joy worth the effort of trust?

He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now.

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

There is this: We give thanks to God not because of how we feel but because of who He is.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

The only place we have to come before we die is the place of seeing God.

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

Thanksgiving is inherent to a true salvation experience; thanksgiving is necessary to live the well, whole, 'fullest' life.

Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted.

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

When you have an overwhelmed world, you don't have to have an underwhelmed soul - if Christ fills the thoughts.

On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?

When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds.

All is grace only because all can transfigure.

You can have this as the best Christmas ever as much as you gaze into your Father's face and receive His gift.

Simplicity is not a matter of circumstance; it is a matter of focus.

How do you open the eyes to see how to take the daily, domestic, workday vortex and invert it into the dome of an everyday cathedral?

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

Are farmers and they keep trying to breathe, keep the body moving to keep the soul from atrophying. Mama cries when she strings

Christ at the end of a cross can upend whole worlds and everything lands aright.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Faith is in the gaze of a soul. Faith is seeing soul's eyes upon a saving God.

How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?

Grace - that is what the full life is full of, what the God-glory is full of.

Faith is in the gaze of a soul.

To live either fully alive ... or in empty nothingness? It's the in between that drives us mad.

Every religion, every program, every self-help book is about steps you have to take. Jesus is the only One who becomes the step - to take you.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

The art of giving is believing there is enough love in you, that you are loved enough by Him, to be made enough love to give. For

You may suffer loss but in Me is anything ever lost, really? Isn't everything that belongs to Christ also yours?

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.

When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.

Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside.

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.