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Aunt Vidala said that best friends led to whispering and plotting and keeping secrets, and plotting and secrets led to disobedience to God, and disobedience led to rebellion, and girls who were rebellious became women who were rebellious,
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“Some people are dotted lines and other people are destinations. Some people get you somewhere and some people are just a place to be, all in themselves. But you cannot force those dotted lines into destinations. It doesn’t really work that way.”
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
“It’s always in those moments when you’ve shunned God, or you’ve gone ahead as if you don’t need Him, that you find yourself crawling back with pathetic little attempts to get His attention because suddenly you’re weak and you need to convince yourself you’re not alone on the bathroom floor.”
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
“Hope can be a mighty powerful thing when you decide to tangle it into a journey. Hope can shake things up a bit. It’ll convince you that even if you don’t know what direction you’re headed in, something will meet you at the end.”
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
“There is a definite romance that buzzes and ticks and takes you by the elbow when Christmastime arrives in the city. It’s something about the lights. The way the wreaths dress up the streetlamps. How everyone seems to commute home at night with much more purpose, and I often found myself wondering what they were barreling back for. If it was a tree that needed to be decorated, or cookies needing to be frosted, or just someone worth holding all winter long.”
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
“I just remember thinking the stars were so reliable. I felt it as I drew my legs in close to my body and wrapped my arms around them; the stars are reliable, unlike any other thing in this crazy world. Leaves fall off the trees. Snow melts. Rain washes away all the things we wrote on the pavement. But the stars are relentless in shining. When it came to talking with God, I wanted to believe He was like those stars. If I looked, He’d be there. I’d lost a lot of things in the years that led up to this point—shoes and keys and books and boyfriends—but I never lost that hope.”
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
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