Kayla Aimee > Quotes

“When we chase validation instead of sanctification, we never find a reprieve from our own self-doubt.”
― Kayla Aimee, In Bloom: Trading Restless Insecurity for Abiding Confidence

“It is the story that we allow a Creator to write in our suffering that gives us the greatest opportunity to know the depths of His love, and in this way share that love with others.”
― Kayla Aimee, Anchored: Finding Hope in the Unexpected

“We don't have to feel attacked by other people's accomplishments. We can make our comparison a compliment. We can hold a candle.”
― Kayla Aimee, In Bloom: Trading Restless Insecurity for Abiding Confidence

“Galatians 6 says, “Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that” (vv. 1, 4 msg).”
― Kayla Aimee, In Bloom: Trading Restless Insecurity for Abiding Confidence

“I kept searching for another half when what I needed was to be whole.”
― Kayla Aimee, In Bloom: Trading Restless Insecurity for Abiding Confidence

“I have rarely seen my husband angry. I boil over and blurt things out and generally find myself issuing apologies fairly frequently in our marriage. Jeff, though, is the embodiment of being slow to anger. The exception to this is if he is watching ESPN. Apparently there are a bunch of athletes out there that need to “learn how to play a kid’s game” or something. The whole thing is quite frustrating for him, which is understandable since he sees himself as some sort of father figure to the players. I mean, that is what I am assuming based on the fact that he spends a lot of time yelling, “COME ON, SON!” at our television.”
― Kayla Aimee, Anchored: Finding Hope in the Unexpected

“The glory of motherhood comes
camouflaged in so much chaos.”
― Kayla Aimee, Anchored: Finding Hope in the Unexpected

“We are measured by meeting milestones that are others-centric, and this creates a tension and a striving, always trying to reach the next rung on the ladder. I don’t think this is what God intended for the woman fashioned from dust and rib.”
― Kayla Aimee, In Bloom: Trading Restless Insecurity for Abiding Confidence