It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most.

While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can’t.

Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have...

You’re not a tree. So move; make something happen.

It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it’s unrealistic to expect that they won’t. So, if you want to be judged in a...

Someone described a writer’s world as tormented, and I had to laugh. A tormented writer? I personally wouldn’t have put those two words together. Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree...

I think one of the biggest reasons people have difficulty believing in God is because they don’t understand Him. You often hear doubting comments like, ‘If there is a God then why this and why...

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn’t lack for creativity.

Sometimes while gazing at the night’s sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it...

Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world’s atmosphere―reality behaving as a low front, fantasy a high front. Each remains somewhat distinguishable and yet they swirl and...

Kindness is still the best antidote.

There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.

No matter how hard they try, they’ll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.

When words can’t make it better, hold my hand and don’t let go.

Live your day and live it well. It’s yours whether you want it or not.

Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of...

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

I’m convinced that whatever contains human emotions is composed of the most fragile material, for it can shatter unpredictably and without effort. And yet it is a resilient marvel as well, able to mend instantly...

Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that...

I claim the right to be who I want to be. Regardless of my choice, I will find those who agree and those who don’t. I will gain support, and I will confront opposition, but...

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there’s a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Because,” said a boy.”Because why?” asked a young girl.”Because I love you.

Face it―nobody cares.But so what? Their apathy doesn’t diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care for those around you so they can’t say the same thing.

The sun shines every day without being told that it is brilliant. The mountains stand tall and majestic though no one informs them of their grandeur. The winds twirl and dance with clouds, lacking cheers...

Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return...

I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes; because I feel I might die otherwise.

Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be...

When I finally find that one willing agent, I’ll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver. 

I have a funny side. I have a soft and sympathetic side. I have a serious side, and a seriously romantic side. I have lots of sides; it’s the main course I haven’t quite figured...

True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.

I learn by doing….the same thing over and over and over again countless times.

The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it’s a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

Eyes, so easily deceived, might judge more rightly with lids closed, allowing ears and heart to remain wide open.”from “The Beauty of Ugh

God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all.

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live...

Christmas is our annual reminder to look up—pondering celestial stars, to look out—serving those in need, and to look down—glorifying our Lord in humble prayer.

Home is where ‘I know you’, ‘I accept you’, ‘I forgive you’, and ‘I love you’ are most likely to be heard.

Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don’t miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.

I could really use someone else’s smile today.

You don’t do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don’t do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it’s who you are, and because you understand the powerful...

Write at a pace that doesn’t surpass your creative flow. Don’t be hasty; don’t be sloppy. Don’t forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and...

Your life is not a simulation; it’s the real game. Play wisely.

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.

When you begin to care too much about what everyone else says, your confidence shrinks and you start to feel like insignificant, little Jack in a strange land of intimidating giants. But when you come...

It’s silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.