That’s me—a storm cloud.

Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.

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...

What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categoriesthat restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn’t have any way to...

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.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Physical attractiveness is no indicator of an individual’s beauty.”from “The Beauty of Ugh

I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.

Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they...

Two powerful, little words I’ve learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts—so what?

Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.

We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

The power behind living a dream lies in either believing it’s a dream or knowing it’s not.

Knowing the path through the forest doesn’t make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn’t make the climb any less of a challenge.

Kind words are salve to a cankered soul; spread generously.

Don’t seek to be happy; let everyone else chase after that rainbow. Seek to be kind, and you’ll find the rainbow follows you.

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

Temptations don’t appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.

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...

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.

Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn’t the tunnel we pass through that matters; it’s what emerges on...

This day is the most recent set of events to define you. Every day changes your life. Every last one.

Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than cause your heart to flutter. It upholds your heart when the infatuation no...

I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that the source of fear’s power comes from within me. So, I ask myself,...

Happiness isn’t reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.

You can believe what you’ve been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something...

Me”( Notice Me)I was sent here on a journey that has no end.I hear you joke of going nowhere fast.Well, maybe life’s a joke and I’m the foolThat dreams of being first but ends up...

You’re right. I’ll see to it.”He fed the barrel stove until a healthy blaze was roaring. Finding me no longer a decent conversationalist, Thaddeus left with a promise to return soon with food and water....

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.

They tell me you’re the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my death resulted from your presence, an everlasting...

The glory of fame isn’t in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it’s like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

Closing your eyes won’t make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head – doesn’t this feed the monster?...

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.