How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

by Esau McCaulley

Sometimes if what we do is sufficiently dark, the space for nuance is left behind.

He understood that love sometimes means acknowledging and bearing with the broken parts of people, even to the point of suffering scorn.

Patience with broken people and broken things is a manifestation of trust in God.

Sometimes our victory does not come through the glory of the lives that we live, but in the victory of Christ himself over death.