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“Showing up for another says, “I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I’m here and that’s what matters.”
― Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking through Suffering Together
― Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking through Suffering Together
“... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory.”
― Looking for Lovely: Collecting the Moments that Matter
― Looking for Lovely: Collecting the Moments that Matter
“But because I believe God’s plans for me are better than what I could plan for myself, rather than run away from the path he has set before me, I want to run toward it. I don’t want to try to change God’s mind—his thoughts are perfect. I want to think his thoughts. I don’t want to change God’s timing—his timing is perfect. I want the grace to accept his timing. I don’t want to change God’s plan—his plan is perfect. I want to embrace his plan and see how he is glorified through it. I want to submit. Nancy Guthrie, Holding on to Hope Receiving what is before me and fighting to walk in the path that is”
― The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
― The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
“That doesn’t mean it isn’t true. The Shining Isle exists as surely as the floor you’re standing on. It may be hard to believe, but it’s real, I tell you. Sometimes in the middle of the night, the sun can seem like it was only ever a dream. We need something to remind us that it still exists, even if we can’t see it. We need something beautiful hanging in the dark sky to remind us there is such a thing as daylight. Sometimes, Queen Sara”—Armulyn strummed his whistleharp— “music is the moon.”
― The Warden and the Wolf King
― The Warden and the Wolf King
“It takes courage, humiliating courage, to step aside from your own sovereignty and imagined control and begin looking for the gift that comes unmerited. Yes, I’m talking about grace. Grace by my definition is the gift that comes unearned. In a world of unbelievably able bodies, where new diets are fashioned every day to keep my brand of story away, it is hard to realize you may be living in the middle of the best story ever told. That the story of breast cancer could possibly be a good story? A great story even? It would be easier to shake my fist at the test results and scream that this isn’t the right story, but to receive—humbly receive—the story no one would ever want, and know there is goodness in the midst of its horror, is not something I could ever do in my own strength. I simply cannot. That receiving comes from the One who received His own suffering for a much greater purpose than my own.”
― The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
― The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
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