Jennifer Lucking

“A shared table is the supreme expression of hospitality in every culture on earth. When your worn-out kitchen table hosts good people and good conversation, when it provides a safe place to break bread and share wine, your house becomes a sanctuary, holy as a cathedral. I've left a friend's table as sanctified and renewed as any church service. If you have a porch, then you have an altar to gather around.”
― Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

“There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.”
― Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

“Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to keep promises to God, to self and to one's relationships that consistently express one's identity and values in spiritually and emotionally healthy ways. Relational congruence is about both constancy and care at the same time. It is about both character and affection, and self-knowledge and authentic self-expression. Relational congruence is the leader's ability to cultivate strong, healthy, caring relationships; maintaining healthy boundaries; and communicating clear expectations, all while staying focused on the mission.”
― Tod Bolsinger, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory

“I wasn't unnatural after all; the cultural attitude that taught me was the real abomination. My body, I realized, was an opportunity. It was political. It moved the world just by existing. What a gift.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman