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No way out but through the storm now.

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's. Hannah

My life was like that box. The best things in all the imperfections.

The beginning of a journey is always uncertainty, but with uncertainty comes hope.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

Sisters are created not by blood but by love.

You let a possibility into your mind, you let it into your life.

We cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.

Those dreams that find you in the quiet of yourself, those are the truest of all,

Other people's judgment doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't. Zoey

Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.

To my grandmothers,
for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things

Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.

It's an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do." "I

Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

We are His children, each knit together as we should be. We must go by the name our Father has given us. Beloved.

People don't come into our lives by accident.

Realize that grieving is a process. It doesn't stop just because the family wants the parent or grandparent to get on with life.

All the best things in life start with a risk.

Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

you can't impact something you don't touch.

Life is a process of storms and rebuilding, of fires and regrowth, of loss and gain.

You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.

That's the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.

Quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

The future is a blank page, but not a mystery.

We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.

Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside, she say.

We've tried to set her straight, but you don't set that woman anywhere. She's like the value of pi. She just is.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They'd

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.

Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.

Things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and that's not the kind of heart I want to have.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.

You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

A life can be blessed without your ever deserving it. You can be loved by people just because they choose to love you.

I was not alone in the human condition.

If we never take a chance on people, we'll never know.

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.

My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.

A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.

Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.

Sometimes God puts a new path under your feet, not because you think you're ready to walk it, but because He knows that's the way you need to go.

After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it?

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim.

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

What the mind don't 'member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.

Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.

There will always be those memories that tie us together, those invisible strings. The careless stitches of mother and daughter. Suddenly

The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips

Some things just are, because they are. Because God made them that way.

Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.

But sometimes it's the things that require a leap of faith that we need to believe in most of all.

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.

Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.

Be patient, Katie. Everything doesn't have to work itself out today.

I desire to live my life this way, ... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence.
Help me find the way.

What we cannot change we must endure without bitterness.

Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.

Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.

Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time.

If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.