God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.