The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
Ann VoskampIf I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
Ann VoskampNo one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
Ann Voskamp