Kristen Strong > Quotes

“I breathed in and out and silently repeated these words like a prayer: I will be where Christ wants me in this moment.”
― Kristen Strong, Back Roads to Belonging: Unexpected Paths to Finding Your Place and Your People

“He absolutely desires each of us to have a place of belonging, but it may require a good bit of wandering to reach it.”
― Kristen Strong, Back Roads to Belonging: Unexpected Paths to Finding Your Place and Your People

“I must be continually ready to give up the parts of my life that God wants to replace with trust in him, even if what I need to give up are my own expectations and continual need to be in the driver’s seat of my life.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You Through Life's Transitions

“first try something that doesn’t fit in order to find the thing that does.”
― Kristen Strong, Back Roads to Belonging: Unexpected Paths to Finding Your Place and Your People

“It doesn’t matter what circumstances land in our lap. We have infinite hope because we have an infinite God who is just getting started at “impossible.”
― Kristen Strong, Back Roads to Belonging: Unexpected Paths to Finding Your Place and Your People

“This is a God-reality for all in his creation: God pays attention.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“Don't panic. I'm with you. There's no need to fear for I'm your God. I'll give you strength. I'll help you. I'll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you." Isaiah 41:10. (The Message)”
― Kristen Strong, Serving You: 31 Days of Encouragement for the Miliary Wife

“The more we work at reacting in a more positive, healthy way to change, the closer we become to accepting and even thriving through it.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“As we wait in trust, we can find comfort in our tears because our tears precede our healing.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“This change [in your life] is not the end. God's grace and goodness are. Yes, you make it through by moving through. Just let your feet do the walking and your heart do the believing.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“When change shakes the calm right out of our life, healing can come when we step into the change rather than stay away from it.”
― Kristen Strong, When Change Finds You: 31 Assurances to Settle Your Heart When Life Stirs You Up

“God wants us to lament. Complaint doesn't see the goodness of the character of God. Lament is authentic about the feelings but knows the goodness and benevolence of God.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“Make the hard, daily choice to do the next best thing as you wait for peace in your circumstances. One thing that helps me find space to breathe? Grace. I need to give myself grace during the murky middle. I remember not to hold my breath but rather to breathe in God's life-giving grace and breathe out trust. I breathe in God's peace and breathe out the release found in giving up and trusting up.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“Change is a part of each person's story as assuredly as the sun is a part of each new sunrise.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“We need to dwell on the facts of our faith rather than our wobbly feelings. We hold on to the facts of our faith by keeping honest communication both vertically with God and horizontally with safe people in our lives. Throughout the process [of difficult change] and afterwards, we give ourselves permission to grieve those losses and let the balm of Christ's love fill in the tender places. We remember we are 'hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; struck down but not destroyed' (2 Cor. 4:8-9).”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“I believe that every one of us must learn something about thriving through uninvited change.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“We secretly wish we were more robot than flesh and heart so we could reprogram our brains and bodies to just get over it. We need to be okay with not getting over it and give ourselves permission to feel the upheaval.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“Jesus knew what it was to be on the outside, but He wasn’t on the outside looking in. He was on the outside looking up. He suffered so we could be sanctified.”
― Kristen Strong, When Change Finds You: 31 Assurances to Settle Your Heart When Life Stirs You Up

“When life changes, I find myself still growing well. I find myself thriving. I used to believe that if change would stop finding me - and asking me to change with it - I'd be more content. Now I find contentment in knowing that God's [goodness prevails]. The seasons glow and fade into the next, and the kids sprout and mature into new stages. I can embrace all of it, leaning into the natural order and goodness of it.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“Life and anything that represents life involves movement, and standing rigid against it will only break us. So being the loving parent he is, God gently but firmly urges us toward the uncomfortable places change brings.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You Through Life's Transitions

“Each monumental challenge is really just several small challenges completed before the next one. It's taking things day by day, even hour by hour. Instead of losing yourself in the overwhelming picture of how different or difficult things are, it's making the choice to give up and trust up in the decision of the moment.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“Let your trust in God boss around your feelings about change instead of the other way around.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“If we want to not be afraid of life, we need to hold inside us a flexible spirit. While we are called to rest when appropriate, the nature of life itself is movement.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“Can’t make heads or tails of what in the world you’re supposed to do next? Well then, buckle your seatbelt, because you’re in a prime location to see God make sense of the senseless...”
― Kristen Strong, When Change Finds You: 31 Assurances to Settle Your Heart When Life Stirs You Up

“We are uncomfortable with speaking emotion, let alone showing it. We want to turn our backs on our messy hearts, caring for them in private if we care for them at all.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“The bleakest of limitations in our circumstances can't dampen the light gratitude brings. Gratitude is the way of hope, especially during seasons of difficult change. When change wipes all the natural light from the rooms of my heart, being thankful is the way to usher it back in. Being thankful helps me creak open bolted shutters and knock holes in thick walls.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“We are uncomfortable with speaking emotion, let alone showing it. We want to turn our backs on our messy hearts, caring for them in private if we care for them at all...Why must we feel the need to apologize for being human and feeling the emotions that are normal to feel as a result of change?”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions

“He is the Lord who heals. He is the Lord who restores and wants us to be whole - really, genuinely, totally whole.”
― Kristen Strong, Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry You through Life's Transitions