Remember when you pray to keep it real and don't always feel the need to pray the scriptures. They are great examples and allow us to see another's heart for God, yet God wants to hear from your heart all the more.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Our thoughts are the source of what we begin reaping in our lives. The seeds of thought that we choose to plant can grow into strong sturdy oak trees or into relentlessly spreading poison ivy that infects ourselves and all we touch.

There is not one moment that passes wherein I ever cease to paint the incredibly amazing canvas of my mind and heart. The difference in having a Thomas Kinkade-like beautiful masterpiece full of shimmering light and walking around with an abstract kindergarten finger-paint is the way we intentionally guide every whisp of the paintbrush. We must always match up a beautiful heart and mind with beautifully orchestrated actions and habits.

My eyes span across all of the rivers of the world where they meet the ebb and flow of ocean tides... I see not only a miraculous beauty of creation... I see the very heartbeat of the Earth as The Creator makes daily provision for His beloved humanity and all they care for.

A good smile is less of an outward show of my inward feelings at a certain time, and more of a constant overflow of the love I have in my heart for all of humanity regardless of my own circumstances.