Jen

“I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.”
― Helen Fielding, Mad About the Boy

“You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.”
― Sandra Dallas, A Quilt for Christmas

“As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible. Joy is always possible. Whenever, meaning—now; wherever, meaning—here. The holy grail of joy is not in some exotic location or some emotional mountain peak experience. The joy wonder could be here! Here, in the messy, piercing ache of now, joy might be—unbelievably—possible! The only place we need see before we die is this place of seeing God, here and now.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.”
― Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work