Shannon

“With less and less time spent with God, eternity and the desire for it would lose their golden glow and melt down into just one earthly desire, back to the one thing I’d wanted for myself—I’d find myself wishing there was someone there to sit on the couch with me when I got home at night. No, my heart whispered. I don’t want to feel that way again. I felt God whisper back, It doesn’t have to be that way. I squeezed my eyes shut, grasping at those words, wanting to feel their truth all the way to the depths of my heart.”
― Grace Thornton, I Don't Wait Anymore: Letting Go of Expectations and Grasping God's Adventure for You

“IN THAT MOMENT I NEEDED A GOD I COULD TRUST WITH MY AGONY-RIDDEN, EMOTION-ETCHED HEART, NOT JUST WITH MY LIFE’S STRATEGY.”
― Grace Thornton, I Don't Wait Anymore: Letting Go of Expectations and Grasping God's Adventure for You

“Insecurity (especially when it relates to our appearance) can not only lead us to reject ourselves but also leaves us more susceptible to being fully knocked out when other life rejections come our way.”
― Kait Warman, Thank You for Rejecting Me: Transform Pain into Purpose and Learn to Fight for Yourself.

“Dawn hadn’t begun to crack the sky yet that morning in Alabama, and I sat on my couch with a full cup of tea, enveloped in quiet so thick I felt I could almost hear the steam rising from the cup. “Okay, God,” I whispered. “I’m here. I don’t know where to start, but I’m here. And I’m not leaving until we figure this out. I know if You are who You say You are, if everything I’ve always known and heard about You is true, then my life won’t make sense until it’s all about You.”
― Grace Thornton, I Don't Wait Anymore: Letting Go of Expectations and Grasping God's Adventure for You