“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Our boys are born with great potential for nurturing, caring, loving, and serving. Let’s stop training it out of them.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Whether you are brave or not cannot be judged by people on the outside. Sometimes being brave requires letting the crowd think you’re a coward. Sometimes being brave means letting everyone down but yourself.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“I decided that a family’s wholeness or brokenness has little to do with its structure. A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free.”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
“What if we revised our memo? What if we decided that successful parenting includes working to make sure that all kids have enough, not just that the particular kids assigned to us have everything? What if we used our mothering love less like a laser, burning holes into the children assigned to us, and more like the sun, making sure all kids are warm?”
― Untamed
― Untamed
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