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We don’t have to do great things to make a difference. We can make a great difference by doing small things graciously.
Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.
How could people let go of their old things, when each told a part of their story? Old things were a literature, a narrative.
She thought that one of the hardest parts of marriage was being loving when both partners were exhausted or wounded at the same time. When you had the least strength, that’s when you had to dig beyond your limits and grab whatever could be found and give it away.
‘I would have told him that God was in love with him, that he made us for himself. As hard as that is to imagine, the power of it speaks to people, gives a certain comfort. I would have said that God isn’t just up there, he’s down here with us, knowing the beating of our hearts. I would have told him that governing truth, the bottom line—that what we must do is empty ourselves, surrender everything, asking his guidance in our lives.
God is in love with you, brother. He made you for himself. Trust that he has used and is using that episode in your life for good.’
Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, ‘This is the way; walk you in it.’
‘Surrender is the key that unlocks the hard heart and gives love the liberty to enter. Where love enters, the possibilities for forgiveness go viral.’
‘Blaise Pascal was a brilliant mathematician, inventor, philosopher. There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person, he said, and it cannot be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God, made known through Jesus Christ.
‘Thank you, God, for loving me and for sending your son to die for my sins. I repent of my sins and receive Christ as my savior. And now, as your child, I surrender my entire life to you.’
‘Love whoever God sets down in front of you. Even the mean ones, ’cause they can sho use it.’
‘I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.’
