To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.

Prayer is the work behind the work.

The quote, “God is not done with me ‘yet’” implies a conclusion to God’s work in our lives when the existence of such a concept is non-existent.

It’s not that the bee hovers in the seemingly effortless way that it does that amazes me. Rather, it’s more the amount of air that it has to move in order to do that.

Yet, there are those moments when what we stand to lose is greater than the pain that threatens to take it.

If I am to excel in this life in any manner that is worthwhile, I must understand that ease is not a lifestyle. Rather, it is the brief and very momentary gift that we are granted because we have spent the bulk of our time purposely engaging that which is hard.

The garden is the place where the work of yesterday births the fruit of today which contains the seeds of tomorrow.

We can say a thousand things and not do a single thing. And if that’s what we’re doing, we’re wasting everything.

It’s not about working hard. It’s about what we’re working hard about.