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The issues are complex, and so I think sometimes the best way to work things out is, well, not to work them out.
You have to leave room for God’s grace. Perfect is God’s job.
Jamie, this is for you... Choose life, Jamie. Whenever you have the chance, choose life.
And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn’t fight it, didn’t work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.
Neither of them was guaranteed their next breath. So why borrow worry from tomorrow?
She liked thinking that people in heaven had a window to earth, a way to see what they needed to pray about, but through the tearless veil of heaven’s understanding.
God’s ways are better than man’s.
God knows better than we do. He always does. Even when it doesn’t make sense.
Be still and know that I am God.
John 16:33 told the truth about life on earth: “ ‘In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
Daughter, remember in this life you will have trouble.
And though the clapping came from the family and friends that filled the church, she was sure she heard a distant clapping, too. A clapping of all the angels in heaven and earth who knew that a moment like this could only come from one source. Their loving, faithful Almighty God.
Life was not all laughter and mornings at the beach. It was okay to cry.
Time and again as she prayed about this day, this moment, she’d asked God for wisdom.
Things were good in her life – very good. God had spared her in more ways than one, and now she was exactly where she belonged.
Eyes are a window to the soul.
Real love lets you figure out the answers by yourself. It says good-bye for a season and prays for your return. Real love understands about love and sacrifice and is willing to live accordingly.
But even now it wasn’t bigger than the God they’d spent a lifetime serving.
God’s not disappointed in you. He’s just not finished with you. That’s all.