Finding Lady Enderly

by Joanna Davidson Politano

“Here awaits the carriage that will carry you into the grandest adventure of your life.”

Man’s feeble work was destined for decay, but God’s starry skies reminded them of the eternity they had before them, just beyond the reach of this earth.

Emotion descends onto us faster than reason, so you must subdue the one and wait for the other.

At times our greatest strengths become the rocks that trip us up.

confidence is simply a muscle like any other. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.”

Pride makes a terrible living companion, for it takes up a great deal of room. ~Diary of a Substitute Countess

There’s beauty in what’s real, but we miss it as long as we strive to be something else.

The weakest version of the real you is stronger than the best imitation of someone else.”

Even when you have everything you want, there will be days you wish desperately for what you once cast aside.

All beauty fades, unless it has seeped into the core of your nature and changed something there as well.

True beauty is not the absence of flaws, merely the parts of us that can outshine them.

“You must forgive my tongue. I seem to gather opinions with each passing year, and as I’m rather advanced in age, I have quite a lot of them. Unfortunately not all of them are worth listening to.”

Living out your true identity may repel plenty of people, but the ones it attracts are yours forever.

“We all bear little pieces of God’s nature in us. When I look at a person—any person—that’s what I think about. I cannot help but long to draw it out.”

My story is far from over.” Yet instead of clinging to the pen and attempting to force its direction, I’d handed it fully over to God.

Being created in God’s image means we bear traces of him. He is our truest identity.

The character, the very nature of this man, had drawn me to the true Rescuer, proved that sacrificial love was possible, and for that I would forever be grateful.