A loved one’s death wasn’t a onetime thing that you had to endure. It was an endless cycle. A cruel Groundhog Day that burned away at your heart and soul until there was nothing left but scorched flesh where they once had been.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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“Quit focusing on what you did in the past. • Quit focusing on what you didn’t do. • Quit allowing yesterday to dictate today. • Quit letting the enemy tell you who you are. The devil brings up your past because he is running out of new material. Every time he brings up your past, you need to remind him of his future. You can’t change your past, but Jesus can change your future.”
― Sandcastle Kings: Meeting Jesus in a Spiritually Bankrupt World
― Sandcastle Kings: Meeting Jesus in a Spiritually Bankrupt World
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