Trees Tall as Mountains Quotes

“The most life-giving thing that I've learned in this time is that God still loves me, no matter how much I despise myself for failing, over and over again. He will never despise me. He will set my feet in a spacious place. The roots of these trees can't keep me.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“I was born to look for hope until my eyes sting with the strain. to wait and watch through the night to shrug off gentle tries until finally I am broken clearly unlovable. clearly loved. this is what I was born for: to finally stop fighting and listen. to be soft. to thaw. God beside me takes my clenched hands and opens them this is the way He is, broken things are made new.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“Certainty of a good future causes your whole life to be different. He was referring to the promise in the Bible that we have life to come, life forever, life with God.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“Today is a day when I can be meditative instead of frantic, rhythmic instead of chaotic, positive instead of negative, loving instead of resentful, and a wise child instead of an immature adult. Today is a day in the forest, a day of sweet breezes, a day of clean laundry. Today is a day to settle accounts, to make things balance, to check a few things off of my list. Today is a day to laugh with my kids, to notice them, to call their beauty out. Today is a day to knit with my friends, to listen to words of wisdom, to make bridges between our hearts. Today is a day to reach out, and a day to rest in near silence. Today anything can happen.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“Ma'am, do you realize that the speed limit is 55 here?" "Yes, but, Officer, it's so HARD to drive only 55. The road is so straight. And the Scotch Broom is blooming." "Ma'am, this is a stretch of road with several vineyards and wineries along it. If you hit one of Sonoma County's best winemakers and knock him off, Napa will be all over us in an instant. We can't jeopardize our grape-growers.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“Unfortunately, the only place that carries the one I need is the psycho household store. Have you ever been in that store? Talk about insanity. They've taken vertical storage to a whole new limit. There are fifty million types of garlic presses, stacked to the ceiling. I almost started crying.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“hormone given to you in pregnancy, one that is designed to keep you from yelling at your children because you are so irritable and grumpy. The effect that this hormone”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“It's like Madeleine L'Engle says. We are made up of all our ages.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“That's what a family seems to be, a team of your biggest fans who are also more work than you could ever imagine.”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains

“suddenly having five kids cruising around on top of your two is not the most stable thing.) When I get to the Big House I'll find out that the person who usually watches my kids while I work is away picking grapes for the week. This is the first I've heard of it. So, in a last-ditch effort to still get some work done, I'll attempt to put a video on for them. But the TV will be broken. Okay. At this point there's nothing for me to do but find my husband and let him know that I quit, because my job has become impossible. He'll suggest that we find another TV, at which point I'll throw my own self on the floor (metaphorically) and wail that there isn't another TV anywhere. But then my friend Elena will let me know that there is. So Chinua will install the new TV, which has been around since before I was born, while I”
― Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains