Shannon

“If you take away one truth, the one thing in this book I know with certainty, let it be this: your life is a good gift from a loving God, even when subjectively it doesn’t feel good or like a gift, and even when you doubt that God is loving. Please get out of bed anyway.”
― Alan Noble, On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

“Don’t do the next thing just so that you can keep doing the next thing. Do the next thing because it honors God and testifies of His goodness and the goodness of your life to your neighbor.”
― Alan Noble, On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

“So, God spare us a life of fairness! To live in a world with grace is better by far than to live in a world of absolute fairness. A fair world may make life nice for us, but only as nice as we are. We may get what we deserve, but I wonder how much that is and whether or not we would really be satisfied. A world with grace will give us more than we deserve. It will give us life, even in our suffering.”
― Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

“We do not have—nor are we able—to jump from trauma to trust or from fear to faith.”
― K.J. Ramsey, The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love