Emily

“What a wonderful thing it is to look out over so many of you who have given up your time to be here today. None of us can be sure at the start of our lives just how they will end, or what our journey there will be like, but if we were to know for sure that our final moments would be in the company of good souls such as yourselves, we would surely be comforted.”
― Richard Roper, How Not to Die Alone

“In the end, it was all light and dark, loud and soft. I knew nothing but the memory of those I loved. One, a friend. The other, unfinished. And that alone is what I took with me into the next life. But I watched, warm and bright and high above. Just as he promised.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“The comfort of ‘even if he doesn’t’ isn’t just that one day he will, which I fully believe. It’s that he’s good anyway. He’s faithful anyway. He’s loving anyway. Even when he doesn’t.”
― Kristen LaValley, Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

“When we’re judgemental of others, it’s typically because we’re craving a sense of control. If we can have an airtight sense of what’s right and what’s wrong, we won’t be touched by someone else’s crisis. We try to pin down what caused their pain in an attempt to make sure the same thing won’t happen to us. Instead of facing the discomfort of admitting that we don’t know the answer, we jump to overconfidence in what we think we know.”
― Kristen LaValley, Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense