When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

You must begin writing your life book.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -

What you don't want to do is dig around here like a groundhog on crack.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.