Melissa

“If you want to discover happiness, learn to ignore unpleasant people and forgive. Don’t let their dirt stick to you. Walk around it.”
― Shelia Stovall, Every Window Filled with Light

“Oneness cannot be achieved just between God and self; rather, oneness involves God, self, and others, and the world around us.”
― Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

“I love my wife, Kris; I do not love Kris’s words. I encounter Kris through her words, but I am summoned to love her, not her words. Sometimes I say to her, “I love what you say to me,” but that is a form of expression. What I’m really saying is, “I love you, and your words communicate your love for me.”
― Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

“readers. The story of the Bible is creation, fall, and then covenant community—page after page of community—as the context in which our wonderful redemption takes place.”
― Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible