Melissa

“When we begin from a place of belief, no matter how small or insubstantial, we can see what was always there, hidden in plain sight.”
― Christie Purifoy, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons

“It seems that we, like Jesus before us, will know trouble and displacement. We will be called away from so many great loves: love of family, love of our familiar fields. But we will also be tasked with the work of cultivating new homes and new fields and new relationships. We will wander. We will come home. But always we will follow.”
― Christie Purifoy, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons

“To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.”
― Edith Stein, The Hidden Life: Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Text

“I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength.”
― Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ