Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

by Lysa TerKeurst

honesty isn’t trying to hurt me. It’s trying to heal me.

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won’t find yourself begging others for scraps of love.

God’s love isn’t based on me. It’s simply placed on me. And it’s the place from which I should live … loved.

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

when their absence is caused by rejection, you not only grieve their loss but you also have to wrestle through the fact that they wanted this. They chose to cut themselves out.

Today’s disappointment is making room for tomorrow’s appointment.

There Is Usually Some Element of Protection Wrapped in Every Rejection

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” (Luke 6:27–28 NASB)

Don’t Let This Heartbreak Destroy You. Let This Breaking Actually Be the Making of You. Let God Use It in Good Ways to Make You Stronger and Take You Further.

“Lord, give them enough hurts to keep them human and enough failures to keep their hands clenched tightly in Yours.”

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (PSALM 34:18)