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

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

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

“I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.”

“God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.”

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

“The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes.”