Sharon Hansen

“3.​Tighten the straps until your stomach looks like an overfilled muffin top. 4.​Take your shoulder straps in both hands, and tighten them by pulling down like you’re trying to kill the muffin top with triceps push-ups. 5.​Attach the chest strap and tighten lightly—not so much you can’t breathe, but enough to stabilize the top of your pack on your back. 6.​Grab the straps behind your head and pull them down, like the legs of a toddler that you’ll kick off your back if it doesn’t stop flailing. 7.​You should feel like your pack is teetering off your hips, with about an inch between your shoulder and the shoulder strap. Adjusted properly, it should feel like more of your weight is being carried by your hips, not your shoulders. Good job—you’re on your way to becoming a chiropractor’s dream.”
― Diana Helmuth, How to Suffer Outside: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Backpacking

“Anne couldn’t construct a world without pain. But she could trust a big, capable God who would be there, holding her when trouble invaded her world. God’s grace was sufficient to hold her in any circumstance. And in this—this reality, this character of God—dwelled the joy of her faith. Joy wasn’t a reaction to God’s blessings. It was a state of being because of salvation through Jesus Christ.”
― Susan May Warren, Tying the Knot

“I didn’t decide anything. I didn’t figure out anything. I just accepted that limits were limits. And accepting limits was strangely freeing.”
― Dana K. White, Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

“Then Jesus healed the man. I think the important thing here is that we can’t always pin down reasons for tragedy. Life is tough—you know that. But every hard moment can be met by God, used by God. That’s the glory of it. We can ask why, but we may never find the answer. But we will find God if we turn to Him. In that surrender, He’ll turn the tragedy into something for His glory and your eternal good, according to His will.”
― Susan May Warren, Tying the Knot