Jessica Quotes

“Lord, we thank Thee for this bounty and for the hands that have prepared it. We thank Thee for the fellowship of our family and friends here this evening. We thank Thee for our many blessings and ask that You keep us ever mindful that no matter how many worldly goods we may have lost, we have Thy blessings and Thy salvation. Please watch over us and keep us safe in the coming year. In Jesus’s name, Amen.”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica

“works out the way I expect.” “That’s because you’re never able to learn from your mistakes. You keep doing the same things over and over. I hoped you would change. I wanted so much for us to be a family that I kept”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica

“wore soiled work clothes. She went to his table and leaned over”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica

“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica

“I think you expect the best of everyone because that’s the way your own heart is. It’s the nature God gave you.”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica

“Jessica said short silent prayers all of the time, mentioning things as she thought of them so that evening fatigue and sometimes forgetfulness didn’t make her leave anything out.”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica

“what everyone I met since I got back who knows”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica

“There are so many things in my life I wish I hadn’t done, large and small. The older you get, the more regrets you have. You can try to push them aside, but they swarm around you and bite at you like gnats.”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica