Ashley

“The truth is, I’m never ready to leave this place. No matter what I do today, it won’t feel like enough time.”
― Meagan Williamson, If I Never Remember

“Drawing closer to the Lord doesn’t set us up for problems. It strengthens our resilience, allowing us to find peace even when we cannot change our circumstances. God cannot teach us what we need to know by only giving life’s hardest puzzles to someone else, however. Growing up in God requires us to relinquish the false hope for permanent safety and protection.”
― Wendy Ulrich, Let God Love You: why we don't, how we can

“Grief is exhausting. No one talks about that. Or, at least, no one told me. No one told me just how exhausting it feels to carry it around with you. And it uses the same muscle as love. Because with real love you have to show up and give. You have to show up and be given to. And it's not so much that I've forgotten how. It's that it's all added up to be so heavy.”
― Laura Dave, The Night We Lost Him

“I believe Gods power to redeem—to bring holiness out of suffering—is as vast and limitless as His power to bring order and beauty out of chaos. But I can only hold onto these lofty perspectives when I am convinced of and held in God’s love. My grasp on that love is too often tenuous, even though He always teaches out to me. I have to work hard to remember and be willing to invite God to sit with me and know me.”
― Wendy Ulrich, Let God Love You: why we don't, how we can