Sam C. > Recent Status Updates

"Sometimes we fancy ourselves as God's publicity agents, leveraging suffering for a divine marketing moment. "Look at what this good thing will mean for your image, God! Look how many people will believe in you if you do this!" We assume God can only be glorified if the outcome lands in our favor. Will God still be glorified in this if things don't go our way? What if... he doesn't? Because sometimes he doesn't."

"She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much." p31
Reminds me of watching my siblings grow

Favorite quote so far:
"Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story." - Bilbo to Frodo when they meet in Rivendell, location 4664

"Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. And eternity, so burdened, would be a torment, and yet," he broke off, drew breath, "yet what else to call it? This terror and this joy."

The confession I have been waiting 2.5 books for 😍