The Shallows
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Our children are connected to us with an invisible umbilical cord that never severs, no matter how far away they are. It’s an energy that’s felt. A quiet knowing.
“Bad things don’t happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn’t work that way. It’s just…life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we’re dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway…to have faith that there’s a purpose to the journey we’re on.”
― Archer's Voice
― Archer's Voice
“Most days, we wake up to our own monsters, desperately in need of a heavenly parent to remind us the truth about reality—that we are loved by a good God, and because of him, everything is going to be okay.”
― Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
― Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
“SOMETIMES, A BOOK CAN change your life. It’s hard to explain that to someone who doesn’t read, or who has never felt their heart bend so strongly toward a story that it might just snap in two. Some books are a comfort, some a reprieve, others a vacation, a lesson, a heartbreak.”
― A Novel Love Story
― A Novel Love Story
“Chiron’s wound symbolizes the transformative power of suffering—how personal pain, both physical and emotional, can become the source of great moral and spiritual strength.”
― Archer's Voice
― Archer's Voice
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