Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

But God is never cruel.

God has no favorites.

The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves.

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.