It's Not Fair Quotes

“People always talk about the difference between joy and happiness. I’ve decided the big difference is that joy hurts. Happiness is a wonderful feeling and joy is a daily dying to your original plans and scooping up God’s plans and not hating him for them.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“we don’t learn to love our lives and then check a box when it’s done. We learn to love our lives every day, one day at a time, forever.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“I am amazing at falling apart. I fall apart like a boss. It’s a gift, really.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“As Mr. Leezak says in Just Married, “You never see the hard days in a photo album . . . but those are the ones that get you from one happy snapshot to the next.”2”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“Bibles and prayers are great. Also great are people who have gone to school for years and years to learn how to help you work through things. The”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“I went through the motions but didn’t always believe that God would provide. Maybe if I worked hard enough, at least he wouldn’t get in my way.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“There’s commonality in the ways that we fear, and there’s commonality in the ways that we fail, and when we partner in the pain, it gives way to sharing in the joy as well. From”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“The soil of suffering and its painful growing conditions yield deep roots and beautiful fruit: great comfort, transparency, heart healing, profound joy. —”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“I’ve been changed by a God who loved me through disappointment and continues to carry me through the unfairness of life.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“want to be a “Me too” friend. I want to be a “Me too” mom and wife. A safe place where people can share their fears and struggles and find refuge and empathy, rather than pity or shame. Maybe”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“But then, I was convicted by the simplicity of his need—my company. That’s my significance. To provide company for my sweet boy while he’s building a cave of throw pillows and couch cushions. I feel boring whenever I talk to someone who isn’t in this same stage of life. But today Elliott reminded me that I’m not boring to him. And after all, what matters more than that? We”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“I can’t make myself accept my circumstances, but I can be completely honest with God about how upset I am and put it back on him to change my heart. He’s God. Let him do the work in you. All you have to do is show up and talk to him. You don’t have to change your mind. You can just plug in and listen to what he has to say. I”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“God, thanks for never leaving or forsaking me. And thanks for the freedom to worship you in limbo. I’m really glad you’re so big I can’t figure you out. It’s actually comforting.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose

“God makes beauty from ashes. But first everything has to burn down.”
― Melanie Dale, It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose