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

“We in the Western world are obsessed with our individual relationship with God, which leads us to read the Bible as morsels of blessings and promises and as Rorschach inkblots. But reading the Bible as Story opens up a need so deep we sometimes aren’t aware we need it: oneness with others under the King who rules his Kingdom.”
― 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

“It’s not likely I’ll have time to read anything in the near future.” “Maybe that’s exactly what you need to do today. I can’t tell you the times when escaping into the pages of a good book is the only thing that’s kept me sane.”
― Shelia Stovall, Every Window Filled with Light