The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

The horizon might be dim and overcast at the moment, but trust God. He is for you, and new things are on the way.

I have often found anger more comfortable than fear. Anger gives me the illusion of control, while fear leaves me naked and exposed.

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.

...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd; it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home.