Every single person. Regardless of their sin struggle.
God’s timing is perfect.
When love was perfect, it would always cast out fear.
It wasn’t that a child like Jalen needed so many voices praying on his behalf. God heard the desperate prayer of a single voice in a dark room. But sometimes something happened that caused the world to sit up and take notice. A time when miracles could sway a generation to believe in God. Miracles amidst tragedies.
Strong in society, vocal about our beliefs.” Her eyes were kind, but they held a no-nonsense look. “For you, that might mean speaking up for your faith, being the voice of truth for your cast.
I think back on our story, the things we could’ve done differently.
Back in his dating days, a man didn’t go to a woman’s house if she lived alone. He might pick her up at the front porch, but he wouldn’t go inside. Propriety ruled.
God’s ways are not our ways. This world is a fallen place, and bad things do happen to good people. They even happen to Christians. Truth is, I couldn’t have made it through without his strength.
Love was a decision.
But you need more than love, Em. Sometimes you need common ground.
My family and my faith are everything to me.
Teamwork creates synergy and chemistry. We become unbreakable and believable.
After that, his faith could never be something passive, a pleasant outing to a friendly church service. Faith became everything, because heaven held one of his own. He was passionate about making sure his family all wound up together in heaven. But here on earth, winning another Super Bowl ring was important too.
Not all first loves were forever loves.
A tsunami of heartbreak consumed the landscape of her heart, wiping out all she has known or assumed or believed to be real over the last eleven years.
Sometimes when Katy prayed, she could almost hear God’s answer – the quiet, still resonance of a Scripture deep in her heart or silent words of wisdom spoken by her parents or the Flanigans.
The last song by Lady Antebellum was “Just a Kiss.” The lyrics talked about how they only needed a kiss – nothing more – because this love might be the kind that lasted forever.
Relationships take a lifetime to build. Pride destroys them in a moment.
Innocence was something that grew in the heart and shone through the eyes.
People fell. They sinned and made mistakes and acted out crazy decisions that went against everything they knew to be true. And even then there was room for redemption.