Or maybe you wrestle with shame rather frequently, seeing it or suspecting it in much of your life. Beyond this, you may be tormented by it or even feel wrangled to the ground by it; you would excise it from your life if you could. Its
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“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Joy never denies the sadness, but transforms it to a fertile soil for more joy.”
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”
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“Jesus, the Son of God, is the man of sorrows, but also the man of complete joy.”
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
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