If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place,
but have not love,
I am a housekeeper ­ not a homemaker.
If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements,
but have not love,
my children learn cleanliness ­ not godliness.
If I scream at my children for every infraction,
and fault them for every mess [...]

Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 7:41:23 am PST.
God help me to consider people’s feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive.
God help me to take responsibility for my own actions, even though they’re usually NOT my fault.
God, help me to NOT try to RUN everything. But, if You need [...]

Dear Fool,
I saw you yesterday as you began your daily chores. As a matter of fact, you didn’t even bless your meals or pray before going to bed last night. You are so ungrateful. I like that about you! I can’t begin to tell you how glad I am that you have not changed your [...]

(What might Paul have said in 1999?)
If I speak with the confidence of Rush Limbaugh and sing with the ease of Celine Dion but don’t have love, my words are like scraping fingernails on a frozen windshield.
If I can program NASA’s mainframe computer and outsmart my chemistry professor, if I can memorize the Psalms and [...]

You thought you were happily smiling at your child from a hard stadium seat or a hot packed auditorium, but your child looked at your face and saw approval of him and joy in what he was doing.
You thought that you were just patting him on the back or on the head, or just ruffling [...]