Debi

“Child, you have prayed. Trust God that he has not abandoned you. You asked for help, yet you do not rest in his power.”
― Ruth Reid, An Angel by Her Side

“My nurse told a female patient, ‘Strip to the waist and put this over your head.’ Then she handed the patient a folded paper gown. “A few minutes later I came into the room and the lady was sitting on the examining table stripped to the waist, with the gown, still folded in a small square, laying on top of her head.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring

“suppose we are all children in the eyes of the Lord. But when God points us in the direction of his plan and we accept it, we morph and transform like the caterpillar emerging after living so long in its cocoon. No matter what that butterfly does, it cannot return to the cocoon nor can it go back to being a caterpillar.” She felt Alejandro squeeze her hand under the table. “I believe that when we follow God’s will without question, that is the day when we truly become an adult in his eyes and, at that point, there is no turning back.”
― Sarah Price, Plain Return

“I need a sip of Charlie Daniels.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring