Adventurer • Smart aleck • Listener • Expert foot rubbist
Peace isn’t about things, it’s about personality. Faith isn’t trusting in what I see God doing or not doing, it’s knowing him well enough to trust him. I know no matter how bad the destination seems, I’m going to love the place he takes me (if I let him).
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I gave God carte blanche with my love life and he went all-out, not just with the crucial things, but the silly, unimportant, ignorable items too. I learned what “more than you can ask or imagine” means.
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Because no reveals more than yes.
No gives more freedom than yes.
If you’re feeling stifled by God’s no, I encourage you to go with it anyway. I promise they lead to better yes’s than you could have orchestrated.
The tone of my reply to my son was so much harder than I wanted it to be. “Here’s how screen-time works from now on. Your answer to me is going to be my answer to you.” Have you ever felt God laugh at you? I did right then.
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I love the Bible verses on getting what you want like, [the Lord] will give you the desires of your heart, or ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. I also love the way the bible talks about my rewards with language like, rewarded a hundredfold, or opening the floodgates of heaven.
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