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21 " passports. No matter how many flights I take, no matter how many countries I visit, if God’s will and heart are not my ultimate destination than I am to be more pitied than anyone. "
― Emily T. Wierenga , Atlas Girl: Finding Home in the Last Place I Thought to Look
22 " I hadn’t learned yet how desperately loved I was. And this was why "
23 " I’d relapsed in the first place. Because you can’t become healed, truly healed, unless you revisit the past. Unless you revisit all of those aching, pulsing places and invite God into them. And that would mean going home and I wasn’t ready to go home. "
24 " Somehow I started to trust his love, there in a foreign land. He was the only thing familiar to me and I clung to him, and his faithfulness softened me. "
25 " It was a way to rewrite the past three years, and every time there was a note, there was a newness born in heart, a resolution to make this marriage "
26 " It was a way to rewrite the past three years, and every time there was a note, there was a newness born in heart, a resolution to make this marriage work. "
27 " It was about my spirit crying “Abba!” It was about years of hating the church for its hypocrisy and men for the way I’d always wanted my dad to hold me "
28 " telling me he loves me. Telling me nothing can erase that love. That nothing I’ve done in the past can wreck my future so long as he is in it. "
29 " The more he held me and the more he whispered his love to me in the crook of night, the more I began to believe that I was made for something more. That my body could be used as a home for a child and that my heart could make room for a cradle. "
30 " I don’t have the answers. I don’t know how this story will end. All I know is that there is a very real God whom my mother adores, and if she, in all her pain and suffering, can still radiate worship, how much more should I? He sees the little sparrow fall. He sees my mum dancing to the rhythms of his grace, and he sees me in all my anger trying to love him in spite of it all. So I will continue to trust, even if it means letting her go. "
31 " When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. Ernest Hemingway "
32 " And sometimes it takes disappointment to remember that this world is not our home. "
33 " To be vulnerable, and it’s only in being vulnerable that we can be fully loved. "
34 " Sometimes, for a split second, life’s problems just sort of line up and solve themselves and you see the hand of Jehovah Jireh so gloriously and heavily. Just for a second. Like God shining on Moses’s face and then he’s gone, but still, the shine. And for months afterward your face is alight. "
35 " God’s plan is never just about us. "
36 " There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou "
37 " Marriage is like prayer. You can choose to enter it in duty, and endure it as an individual, or enter it willing to lose oneself to the Spirit, thus becoming one with the heart of God. "
38 " I grumble at God and wonder if He loves me, just because things don’t go right. If everything always went right I’d have no sympathy for those who suffered and I’d have no excuse for not being joyful all the time—but I bet I’d still grumble. This way it’s a test of character and faith, to see how I react to disappointments, crying kids, sickness, disturbed nights, etc. "
39 " So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me . . . every day. Nicholas Sparks "
40 " I’m learning to wake up and anticipate moments instead of fretting over the entire day. I’m learning to relax, because if something’s meant to get done, it will, and if not, it wasn’t. "