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1 " Everyone knows. I think even Clara knows, deep down, though she's convinced that advertising that the farm is wireless - for her meaning without Internet - adds to the draw of the place. So we alll pretend it's not here and only use it when we have to. And life is better without it, honestly. It's nice not being constantly connected. It makes us... more connected, ironically. "
― Amanda Dykes , Set the Stars Alight
2 " He is coming, and coming, and coming, and coming after you. In every sunset, in every snatch of birdsong In everything that stirs deep into you and makes you hungry for bigger things, eternal things. That is Him, pursuing you with tenderest grace. In the places so hard they wring your soul. In the places so beautiful they steal your breath. He is there, filling your soul, giving you breath. "
3 " He is coming, and coming, and coming after you. In every sunset, in every snatch of birdsong In everything that stirs deep into you and makes you hungry for bigger things, eternal things. That is Him, pursuing you with tenderest grace. In the places so hard they wring your soul. In the places so beautiful they steal your breath. He is there, filling your soul, giving you breath. "
4 " The world is dark, so dark we sometimes forget the stars. But they are always there - we need only fight to see these brilliant places of light, these echoes of the truest story. Of a man who gave his life for another - and of a Man, centuries before him, who gave His life for the world. The One who is coming....and coming.....and coming after you. Fighting for your heart. Every breathe a gift. "
5 " I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages. "
― Amanda Dykes , Whose Waves These Are
6 " I didn’t feel like a whole person. Just a handful of pieces, not sure how they all fit together. "
7 " The way the girl soaked in the world around her, gathered treasures, and searched for miracles-and found them right where she walked and breathed and liver her moments. Hers was a rich, deep, expansive life right there on that farm. "
8 " Here they were. Two souls, buried alive beneath the earth beside the sea, in a place of nowhere - an empty cave that felt impossibly full as Juliette took flight where there was no sky. "
9 " He would never forget the impression of that voice on his heart. It was the voice of the man, who, king of the universe, stooped to wash his own disciples' earth crusted feet. Who rubbed spit into dirt and used the mud to make a blind man see. Whose royal day of birth was enrobed in dust, right there with the animals in a barn. That man was accustomed to doing great things in humble places, and it usually involved dirt. or rocks, as it were. The same God who told a solitary man to build a boat to prepare for a flood when no one had so much as seen a drop of water fall from the sky in all their lives. "
10 " And Bob knows too well, when you've been without air so long you can't remember another way of life, even a single breath of fresh air is a lifeline. "
11 " A lifetime ago, he’d dreamed of standing here at the gate with a bouquet at this back for her. He’d hoped back then to win her heart…and now he must break it. "
12 " She watches his complete abandon, haunted by the fullness of the song of this man with two letters to his name and a million to his story. "
13 " Impossible’s where the miracles happen, Ed. If I stay put…I might have more chance at life, but what sort of livin’ is that, when I was made to do this? "
14 " He slides his palm over the gentle strength of those rocks and remembers the faces from the photos tucked into boxes with those rocks, the stories penned with care on tear-splotched pages, arriving from around the country. He sees Liesl, the horror and hope of what she had been through etched in her face as she unwrapped that stone from her threadbare handkerchief. He sees Omaha beach. U-boats. Paris celebrating, bathed in light. He sees the frozen passes of Russia, winding river currents in Burma, jungles in the Philippines "
15 " The night— it had become our homeland, his and mine. The place where all the rest of the world slept and our hearts found each other in the dark. To sit, to talk, to be heard— and to see that the darkness was created and held by the same God who had spun the sun and all its golden light. "
― Amanda Dykes
16 " Everyone knows. I think even Clara knows, deep down, though she's convinced that advertising that the farm is wireless - for her meaning without Internet - adds to the draw of the place. So we all pretend it's not here and only use it when we have to. And life is better without it, honestly. It's nice not being constantly connected. It makes us... more connected, ironically. "
