Be sure to get away often enough that you are regularly exposed to God’s art and able to remember that He is transcendent above all the details of your life.

Busyness falsely promises productivity.

Taking time away to really seek God and to remember what He has done always shows us a bigger picture of Him.

Owning your life – your actions and decisions, and their consequences – must begin with a healthy view of yourself that is based on what God thinks of you. Once you listen to His voice, your self-perception will change.

Only God offers deep-down inner acceptance and approval. Only His unconditional love and acceptance will satisfy our longings. Only His ways bring vibrant health. Paul.

Beauty is about picturing God’s unchanging goodness and daring to bring it into my own small, dusty days.

Home is your garden of life, so to speak, and you are free to order it and plant it as you will. But all great works of life must be planned in order to make them productive, useful, and flourishing.

Words make worlds.

We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.

I didn’t think I was the only one who loved my children but struggled with isolation and boredom in the sometimes overwhelming details of daily life. I believed that, among like-minded women, there was a need for community as we strived to raise godly children without many people to teach us or to share our burden.