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“We could not have imagined that the answer to our prayers would come in such an unexpected, inconceivable package.”
― Rachel Anne Ridge, Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances

“I realized how often I made the mistake of thinking that fixing things was what the journey was all about. If I can only “find these donkeys,” solve the issue, and get past this problem, everything will work out. I’ll go back to my normal life in my little town in obscurity and live happily ever after. Maybe we all do this. We wander all over the figurative countryside trying to solve our donkey problems. Our financial setbacks. Our hurting marriages. Our parenting issues. Our soul-killing jobs. Rocky relationships. Ill health. Insecurities. Fears. Doubts. We begin to think we’re on a hopeless mission and there is no end in sight. We feel like we have failed. We think we are insignificant. We think God does not see or notice us. We become frustrated with the task. But what we don’t realize is that, even while we’re out there in the middle of Nowhereville like Saul was, God has already been at work. In fact, Nowhereville is just where we are supposed to be. I started to see that all of our donkey problems, our hard situations, are the very things God uses to get us to a place of encounter. A place where our hearts are made new. Like Saul, we’ve come to the end of everything we can think of to do, and we’ve given up. And then we give it one last chance, one more shot, and boom. That’s the moment God shows up. When we’re out of our comfort zones, have used up all of our resources, and are at the end of all hope. That’s exactly the place where He meets us.”
― Rachel Anne Ridge, Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances

“you are defined by what you give, not by what you have.”
― Rachel Anne Ridge, Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances

“most important, Flash reminded us of God’s infinite, unfathomable love. He reminded us that He takes worthless, unworthy, unwilling people and sets His heart on them. On us. On you and me. His love makes us valuable, worthy, and beautiful. He heals our scars, He provides for our needs, and He gives us more than we could ask for. We are His. We belong to Him. He calls us by name, and He brings us safely home.”
― Rachel Anne Ridge, Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances

“wants to use us as He used His own Son. OSWALD CHAMBERS, My Utmost for His Highest”
― Rachel Anne Ridge, Made to Belong: A 6-Week Journey to Discover Your Life's Purpose

“Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed. PROVERBS 16:3”
― Rachel Anne Ridge, Made to Belong: A 6-Week Journey to Discover Your Life's Purpose