What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, ‘Criminy, why didn’t I ever think to write that!’

What is the spirit of Christmas, you ask? Let me give you the answer in a true story…On a cold day in December, feeling especially warm in my heart for no other reason than it...

I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that..…..fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true....

You’re right; you can’t make someone be happy. But I don’t see the harm in trying.

Your weaknesses may not seem overwhelming, but they will create the biggest problems you face.

It isn’t always a change of scenery needed to make life better. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes.

You need tell me nothing; I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you’ve given yourself away.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words “I still love you” after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn’t weakness.It is power.

To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.

As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you’d think I’d grow accustomed to the gloom.

Dear God,I hurt. Please hold me.Amen

Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that’s closer to human reality.

Remember this—the journey is part of the dream. Whatever it is you’re chasing, so long as you are actively moving in the right direction, the dream is coming true.

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

What is the right tool, the best option, the choicest gift,the winning hand, the greatest relief, the finest revenge, the sweetest drink, the perfect response, the working solution, the strongest medicine? The correct answer is...

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader’s great experience.

Be good.See good.Choose good.It’s a no-brainer.

Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don’t believe in them. For I know the truth. Only one...

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.

The search only ends when you finally find the one who truly gets you.

My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.

To Bury A Star””I pulled a star from the darkest corner of night and hid it within my bosom. When the Earth beneath my feet gave way, moist and fertile, I knelt to the ground...

Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn’t the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.

I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, ‘Wow.’

Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to...

Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give in. Don’t ever stop trying. Don’t ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush...

I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all.

Discouragement, fear, and depression—three villains who lurk in the dark.They slip inside souls with a blindfold and goals to shatter your dreams and extinguish your spark.Their tactics are highly effective.They crush a great many each...

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within.

It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.

Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.

A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.

Life is learning to take God’s hand…..and hold on.

Shhh, Eena, it’s going to be okay. I promise, you’ll get through this.”She didn’t fight him, but grabbed onto his shirt, weeping softly into it as before. He began to hum faintly, a familiar Earth...

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

I am.I’m here.I’m me.You are the mystery. 

The bulk of life is discovering who you are—and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.

When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can’t see it. And you’d never ask someone...

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you’ll find you have an abundance.

Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.

I squinted at the western sky behind Thaddeus, a blood-red smear melting into blackness. Twisting my neck, I glanced the opposite direction. My teeth clenched at a magnified, round moon nearly as scarlet as the...

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

Patience isn’t tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited...

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.

Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.

Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself, ‘So what?’ Then, after answering, ask yourself again, ‘So what?’ And then a third time—’So what?’ Chances are you’ll come to realize that...