behave or feel. If you like what you see in the mirror, you feel a bit more worthy of My Love. When things are going smoothly and your performance seems adequate, you find it easier to believe you are My

Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.

You are increasingly released to become the one I created you to be.

In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

As Tom Wright describes it, Mary's Song is the "gospel before the gospel" and it "goes with a swing and a clap and a stamp." Mary's Song is an expression of gratitude for God morphing her bad reputation into a messianic vocation. But her past is even more than this unfortunate label.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck. Tom, I am not everybody.

My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's Notebook, 1885

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.