Grief does not always ask permission before it returns. It can come back around when we least expect it, not because we have failed to heal, but because love does not disappear just because someone is gone.

My defeats don’t define me; Jesus alone defines me, and he calls me his beloved. Without qualifiers.

As I was reading my daughter her Bible before bed the other night, I couldn't help but be thankful for how Children's Bibles illustrate biblical truths in a way that is easy to understand. I realized that sometimes I even need the cookies put on the bottom shelf so these parables of Jesus can go from my head to my heart. We were reading through the story of the Good Samaritan found in Luke chapter 10, and there were great lessons for her to learn, and reminders that I needed

So how on earth did we go from crazy and broken to close and supportive? Let me tell ya, it's quite a story.