Melissa

“I don't always understand how God works, but I still pray. It's like that old saying, I don't understand how electricity works, either, but I don't let that keep me in the dark. I don't have to understand God to believe in God. What gives me hope are those words some anonymous soul wrote: "I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“Look, at the end of it all, God us going to ask just one question: Did you love? Eh? That's all that matters. Did you love.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“One of my favourite verse in the Christian Bible is the shortest one of all: "Jesus wept." He showed His humanity. He shed messy, unmanly tears. He didn't do it in private. He did it in front of His friends and followers. In front of a crowd.

We need to stop hiding our tears and actually share them. It takes a strong person to cry. It takes a stronger person to let others see those tears. We need to be tough enough to be tender, no matter who is watching.”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Every”
― Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours