Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

The Lord will provide.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?