Memory Lane (Sons of Scandal, #1)

by Becky Wade

“I know that God has a soft spot for those of us who feel like we’ve been thrown onto the garage sale pile. A giant soft spot for us. He’s never closer to us than when we’re beaten up, unloved, betrayed.” “Then why, back then, did He seem so far away?” “I don’t know. Sometimes the way things seem isn’t the way they are.”

“Answers to prayer don’t always look the way you expect them to. My sadness isn’t gone but it’s much better, you know. Because you’re here, Remy. And now I have company.”

“I’ve learned in my eighty years,” Wendell said, “that seasons of emotional hardship are like storm fronts. Powerful, yes. Damaging, yes. Scary when they’re on top of you. But also passing.”

Jude had been a kindhearted baby, but a little on the suspicious, introverted side. Observant. The quieter of the two. The rule follower. The dutiful one who, when asked to go upstairs and make his bed, would go upstairs and make his bed.

“God has a soft spot for those of us who feel like we’ve been thrown onto the garage sale pile. A giant soft spot for us,” Wendell had said to her that day at his kitchen table. “He’s never closer to us than when we’re beaten up, unloved, betrayed.”

“I’ve lost my whole world and gained it back again. The most important thing to me out of all of it—everything I’ve lost and everything I’ve gained—is you.”

“For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain.” Isaiah 54:10