“If we keep our heads down, either out of defeat or loss or shame or tiredness... whatever the reason, we are going to miss the beautiful sun (and Son) that is right there in front of us, shining its warmth on our faces and our souls!”

“I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.”

“Everything, including our pain, is His. I am thankful He will meet me in it.”

“Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.”

“It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.”

“some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.”

“Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.”