“I feel as if I've gone past the lukewarm stage that Jesus talked about in the book of Revelations and am slowly dwindling on cold. Deep down I want to change, but I don't know how. I'm the pastor. I'm supposed to know how. I hide my frustration with an obsession for Ohio State football and hours at the I Sold It on eBay internet cafe around the corner from the church.”

“God has awesome plans for your life. So get excited!”

“In your life, the people become like a patchwork quilt. Some leave with you a piece that is bigger than you wanted and others smaller than you thought you needed. Some are that annoying itchy square in the corner, and others that piece of worn flannel. You leave pieces with some and they leave their pieces with you. All the while each and every square makes up a part of what is you. Be okay with the squares people leave you. For life is too short to expect from people what they do not have to give, or were not called to give you.”

“If you are a worrywart you can't be a ninja. You can't rise up and fight when the weight of the world is pressing you down. Your family needs you to be sane and not bogged down in fear.”

“Some battles take more than one ninja to win.”

“Ninja mom's understand that training time is never wasted time.”

“To be a ninja Mom you have to be cool with yourself.”

“Ninja Mom's have to learn that when they mess up, they get right back up again.”

“Ninja Mom's are graced to finish the raise set before them!”

“Ninja Mom's know that God has never left them!”

“Ninja faith stands. It is not shaken when things seem contrary to what one expects. Ninja faith chooses to believe the truth.”