God, I don't know whether you exist or not. Maybe I'm praying to nobody, but maybe I'm praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only the Truth, whatever it is. If you are the Truth, here I am, ready and willing to follow you wherever you lead.

other little wooden fences can come down too. How? When? God only knows.

Your will, not mine, O Lord.

Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer.

There were answers to this and all my hard questions—for now I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

Yes, it is a high price, but it has been paid. It is wonderful to be able to surrender to Him, who bought us. With body, soul, and spirit. And to lose your life for Him. It means you gain your life.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, God can give us the perfect way.

In the end the women of Christmas quietly stepped aside, making room for the One who truly matters.

We must take God with an as-is sticker on Him. No return policy.

The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away." If we can trust God to give, then we must also trust Him when He takes away".