I will no longer expect another person to provide me with a sense of worth. I don’t need a husband to make me feel complete.
I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.
God created us to dream. When we fail to dream, we rob Him of the opportunity to do great things. Sometimes we shy away from dreaming big dreams. Maybe we don’t want to ask for too much. Maybe we some...
Your problem is that you’ve grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you’re afraid of what will happen if you don’t. Being happy frightens the very life out of you.
State, making the trip there and back in a single day was bound to be exhausting. Even now she was
Love. In time you’ll know joy again. Joy? I wanted to argue with him. It didn’t seem likely or even possible. One doesn’t heal from this kind of pain. I remembered how my family and friends had strugg...
Him. The happiness she felt was still new to her and it actually frightened her a little.
A smile that would melt concrete.
Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.
There are consequences in owning an alley cat, Mr. Walker. Even one named Dog. Lacey knew how pious she sounded. Lines of righteousness creased her face as she let herself out.
Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.
My rescue dog, but who had rescued whom? Rover was my constant companion, and as Grace had so recently suggested, he was my comfort dog.
My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways to get one’s point across.
Justine refused to risk the pain that real closeness could bring. She’d been with her twin brother when he died, and the love she felt for him had turned into agony. Caught up in her own grief, Olivia...
He was, without a doubt, the most masculine male Bailey had ever seen—
The streets of Bethlehem must have been crowded and bustling with activity at the time of that first Christmas. I can see it all now, can’t you? A rug dealer is held up by a shepherd driving his flock...
Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.
It’s okay. I’m fine…really. I couldn’t fit my phone in my clutch, so I left it in my room.
He’s a man, after all. They want to know what they believe they need to know, which is minimal because they are raw, uncivilized, unrefined animals. They talk endlessly about themselves and puff up th...
As far as she could tell, basketball involved a herd of impossibly tall men racing up and down a polished wooden floor, passing a ball back and forth until one of them forged ahead to the basket to tr...