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“Never underestimate the power of heart, Samantha. You feel things strongly and care deeply. It’s how God made you.”
Besides, she cared little about who a man knew. Who a man was carried much more weight.
“God created us with very different personalities and interests, which led to us viewing the world through very different lenses.
“Likely, I’d not be married to a man who puts the Lord first in everything he does and who loves me with such selfless affection that he’d sooner lay down his life than cause me one moment of physical or spiritual harm.”
You are more than enough. You are exactly who God intended you to be.
Ministry is not about you helping those in need, it’s about God helping those in need through you.
“There’s a young lady who recently arrived in town who has some experience with teaching. She’s volunteered to help Jonathan get caught up on the work he missed last term after he began working at the livery.
Omggg
I don’t know his reasons, but I do know how hard it is to be evicted from a home you love and be forced to start anew elsewhere.”
:(
Heavens, but the man was handsome when he smiled.
What do you think?” He thought he was in a whole heap of trouble.
“It’s your problem because as long as the older and wiser men of our society turn a blind eye to the bad behavior of their young protégés, nothing will change. Someone has to take a stand and demand integrity.”
“I wish livin’ life was as easy as writing stories, Ferg.
Her duty was to seek God first and walk in righteousness, but within those parameters, she could make a hundred different choices that would shape the details of her life in a thousand different ways.
“Asher, don’t.” Her eyes pled with him, as if she knew what he was about to confess. But how could she?
Omggg
It takes courage and strength of character to admit to wrongdoing, but that’s what a man of integrity does.
“I’ve often thought waiting is one of the hardest things the Lord asks us to do. It strains our patience, faith, and self-control. Yet he promises good to those who wait on him.”
I rejected God’s plan in favor of my own. There will be a reckoning. I just pray Clint will not be the one to pay the price for my sin.
Oh goodness
They’d been locked inside.
Omg
She fell against him, her arms wrapping around his back, as all the terror she’d experienced poured out of her in ragged sobs. “Thank God you came.”
“We’re about to have a front-row seat to a glorious performance. God at his finest. Working for the good of those who love him.”
Experienced more hardships and witnessed God’s provision in the aftermath.”
“If you had put the journal away and gone to bed as I’d encouraged . . .”
Thank you Jesus
“Thank you, Asher. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have you to lean on.” He closed his arms around her slender form and rubbed her back. “Lean away, darlin’. I’m not going anywhere.”
She barely heard him over the truth clanging like cymbals in her brain. “It’s you.”
AH
I could start lacing Eli’s coffee with arsenic, just like I’d done with Victoria’s medicine.
No way
“He wanted the doctor to stitch his wound in such a way that the sutures would form the shape of a crescent. Even if it meant sewing more than was strictly necessary. When Dr. Abbott asked him why, Daddy said he wanted to match his son.”
:'(
It wasn’t so much losing him that hurt as losing the idea of who she’d once believed him to
