Laura Bazal

“It can neither be concealed nor overstated: These types of things genuinely interest and delight me. One small wordplay discovery—say, figuring out that an anagram for maker is me, AKR—will make my whole day.”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

“I HAVE BEEN WAITING for you at the northeast corner, by the Starbucks, as we agreed. for you to notice that I do not care. for someone like you.”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

“For Calvin, then, a God-sized vision constitutes far more than having a “big” vision of God’s capacity to display great power in the world. Rather, it calls us to completely reorient our frame of reference through which we look at the world. Someone who lives with a God-sized vision affirms that gaining knowledge of God precedes gaining knowledge of man. To acquire this knowledge of God, we turn to Scripture. There we see Christ, and in reflecting on Christ, we gain more knowledge of God the Father. As Martin Luther observes, Christ is a mirror of our heavenly Father’s loving heart. Yet this Father will also judge according to his own standards of righteousness, not ours. This God holds the nations in his hands. He alone empowers our ministry. We must not depend on methods, cultural exegesis, strategies, and techniques (helpful though some of them can be) as our end-all approach to doing ministry. We desperately need to depend on the power of the Holy Spirit in our day-to-day lives. A God-sized vision helps us to understand that the Lord really does love us and care for us. He provides for us. The doctrine of God’s providence gives us both courage and comfort. Trusting that God as our loving heavenly Father wants our good, we can even dare to pray the Lord’s Prayer with sincerity, including the phrase “Thy will be done.”
― Collin Hansen, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Stories that Stretch and Stir

“I like the cursor blinking, the coffee drinking, the sitting thinking.”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal