There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Today, God, help me relax and enjoy the scenery. Help me know I'm right where I need to be on my journey.

Who we are right now is okay.

you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for our lives.

Patience to wait does not come from suffering long for what we lack but from sitting long in what we have.

Soul satisfaction ensures abundant life on earth.

Since not everyone is looking for something elaborate, I've come up with a range of simple things that everyone can buy and wear.

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.