It's Not Supposed To Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered Quotes
"Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like."
"Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain."
"God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way."
"Dust doesn’t have to signify the end. Dust is often what must be present for the new to begin."
"If we want His promises, we have to trust His process."
"God isn’t ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you."
"We don’t have to know the plan to trust there is a plan."
"Pain still hurts. There are other people who have had the same medical emergency I had, only they didn’t survive."
"We just aren’t into being exposed. We just aren’t into facing the fears of stripping off all the cover-ups."
"The majority of people were kind and compassionate, respectful and prayerful."
"But frustration can turn into forward motion when I take on the project of me."
"The more I focus on wanting others to change, the more frustrated I will become."
"Fear isn’t something you can sweep up into a pile and discard. It isn’t physical. It hovers and haunts us in the spiritual realm."
"But I knew this had absolutely nothing at all to do with a bathing suit."
"Fear isn’t something you can sweep up into a pile and discard."
"For me, to turn and stand before myself this way was a marked moment of my casting off fear."
"The enemy wants us paralyzed and compromised by what-ifs, opinions, accusations, and misunderstandings."
"To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life."
"Adam and Eve could do this, because they had no other opinions to contend with but the absolute love of God Himself."
"Naked. Unashamed. And, therefore, completely unafraid."
"Whatever statement was spoken to you that came against the truth must be called a lie!"
"God’s Word is the Truth. And His Truth says you are a holy and dearly loved child of your heavenly Father."
"You are fully known by Him and lavishly loved by Him."
"No matter what you’ve done or what’s been done to you, these words of God are true about you."
"May we carefully choose what we remember and what we forget."
"I’m so quick to remember others’ hurtful words but slow to remember God’s healing words."
"We must set our minds and our hearts on things above by choosing to remember God’s words, repeat God’s words, and believe God’s words about us."
"We must let God’s Word become the words we park our minds and hearts on."
"We must let God’s Word become the words of our story."
"We must let God’s Word become the words we believe and receive as truth."
"I could almost feel fear losing its grip on me."
"I swallowed hard. And I turned toward the mirror."
"There I was, fully exposed. My age evident. My flaws in full view."
"But I was standing. Strong. Maybe stronger than I’d ever been in my entire life."
"The process isn’t a cruel way to keep you from the promise; it’s the exact preparation you’ll need to handle the promise."
"Weak moments don’t make weak faith. Weak moments make us even more aware of our need to press in to faith."
"Don’t lose sight of where we are headed. Let’s keep our eyes on Jesus, who will show us how to put up with anything along the way."
"The Lord helped me survive and He’ll help you too. I’ll hold your hand while you find your way to Him."
"We must know that just like the master baker has reasons to allow the flour and eggs in right measure into his recipe, Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, will do the same with dry times and hard times."
"Tears are the truest connection we have with others, and trust is the truest connection we have with God."
"To live is to love. To love is to risk pain. To risk pain is to live. It’s what it means to truly be human."
"Perfection intimidates. Compassion inspires."
"There’s someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours."
"When you make one other human simply see they aren’t alone, you make the world a better place."
"Art and I have finally made peace with the fact we will never be more than human on this side of eternity."
"I am a human who is sold out to the sacredness of marriage but who very much realizes I can’t control anyone’s choices but my own."
"People can change. Addictions can be healed and affairs can be gotten over. It’s not easy. But it’s the path I’m choosing."
"To be human is to be vulnerable. It demands a trust in God that’s no joke."
"Being hurt isn’t the worst thing in the world. It’s actually the very thing that makes us closer to Jesus and closer to our fellow humans."
"So I don’t fear the hurt because I do trust God to bring good from it."
"I fear getting just comfortable enough to exhale and start reclaiming a normal that’s always subject to change."
"But I’ve been transformed into a better human because of what we’ve walked through."
"To open my heart again means to expose what’s been so badly wounded to the sharp edge of trust again."
"God absolutely longs to help us in our hurt. But to help us, He must transform us."
"When we express God’s truth, we depress the lies of the enemy."
"God loves me, and He pursues me even when I act unlovable."
"God loves me, and He promises not to waste any of my pain."