And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God.

Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?

Could our plodding, our daily persevering through a life we didn't expect, don't want and didn't choose, actually bring blessing?

You probably had more adventures today than I’ll have in a lifetime. Walking must seem tame to you.”“Elle, you’re more of an adventure than anything that’s ever happened to me.

His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.

I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)

I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.