“ I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both. ”
...hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped. Hope is placing the beautifully vulnerable parts of ourselves, our raw selves, into His hands. I believe hope moves His heart; but hope also moves our hearts into His hands. Hope builds trust.
~ Natalie Brenner
I craved to make my faith as real as possible, which meant being recklessly honest in His presence.
We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.
...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.
