“An abundant life is one where we are physically strong, mentally sound, and spiritually aflame. I”

“Safeguarding our health will allow us to fulfill our divine potential and serve others more effectively.”

“Jesus took care of himself. He ate healthy food. He rested when he was weary. He sought time alone when he needed to recharge. He laughed with his friends. He wept when he was sad. He walked long d...”

“Happiness isnt the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single flowe...”

“You are brighter than the sunlight and bolder than a rainbow. You are the reason spring was created in the first place.”

“Dont even try to count all the colors of spring. Gods pallet keeps generating new hues.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer.”

“There was warmth in his large piercing brown eyes. The kind of warmth that tucks a child into bed. The same kind of warmth that dries your wet hair on a rainy December afternoon.”

“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”

“The traveler knows the grace of travel.”

“Man, you should write a book.I know. You couldnt make this stuff up, could you?”

“And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldnt make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the soli...”