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It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

He created us for adventure, not ease.

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

We'd avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God's wild affection for us.

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor - my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

God's heart ... is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word.

I'm just a broken girl who's learned I can't walk the crooked path of this life.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly ... Eeyore becomes your best friend.

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.