Ariana Carruth > Quotes

“As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded with
God for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.”
― Ariana Carruth, Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace

“In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday’s affliction and the hope of tomorrow’s gifts.”
― Ariana Carruth

“Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.”
― Ariana Carruth, Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace

“Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.”
― Ariana Carruth, Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace

“In that moment, I welcomed back the light and let go of the fear, the feelings of unworthiness, the past, the loss, the wallowing, the grief and the anger. I let go of the illusion of control in our losses, of our afflictions.”
― Ariana Carruth, Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace

“Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?”
― Ariana Carruth

“It was all about release, about letting go of the unknowns.
I was having a disabled child and that was that. There were no hidden truths to discover. I would not know anything about her birth, her survivability odds, all her ailments, until her life actually unfolded.”
― Ariana Carruth, Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace

“When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.”
― Ariana Carruth