“Whether Jesus calms the storm or calms us in the storm, His love is the same, and His grace is enough.”
― Extraordinary Faith: God's Perfect Gift For Every Womans Heart
― Extraordinary Faith: God's Perfect Gift For Every Womans Heart
“I’m not talking about cooking as performance, or entertaining as a complicated choreography of competition and showing off. I’m talking about feeding someone with honesty and intimacy and love, about making your home a place where people are fiercely protected, even if just for a few hours, from the crush and cruelty of the day.”
― Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
― Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
“my god
is not as unreachable as
they'd like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
is not as unreachable as
they'd like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“What makes me feel alive and connected to God's voice and spirit in this world is creating opportunities for the people I love to rest and connect and be fed at my table. I believe it's the way I was made, and I believe it matters. For many years, I didn't let it matter, for a whole constellation of reasons, but part of becoming yourself, in a deeply spiritual way, is finding the words to tell the truth about what it is you really love.”
― Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
― Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
“The truth in God’s Word isn’t always easy to digest. It doesn’t always feel good to live like He’s called us to live. Sometimes we feel beat up and bruised as we seek to swim upstream against the culture and live out His plan, but He stretches us in ways that are ultimately for our good.”
― Dancing Through Life: Steps of Courage and Conviction
― Dancing Through Life: Steps of Courage and Conviction
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