" Aunt Mare, do you ever wish you’d had a different life? Something not so…hard?”
“Sometimes. But then the hard is what makes us who we are. The hard is usually what God uses to draw us closer…If I have to choose between what’s easy or what will bring me closer to Him, I pray my choice will be Him.”
“That’s a scary prayer.”
“Tell me about it.”
A hint of a smile pulled up the corner of Sara’s mouth. “But you pray it anyway. "

― Katie Ganshert , A Broken Kind of Beautiful