Inspiration

It was moving day. The previous owners were going to finish moving out that morning, and we were going to start moving in that afternoon.

We showed up just as they were finishing up, around lunchtime. The couple was sitting down for a breather before they left. The wife suggested to her husband that they go to McDonald's for lunch. She told us with guilty pleasure, "I know it's not good for me, but I just love burgers and fries."

Her husband had a somewhat disgusted look on his face. He told us, in all seriousness, "Not me. I'm a meat and potatoes man."

"We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand."

- C.H. Spurgeon

A six-year-old comes crying to his mother because his little sister pulled his hair.

"Don't be angry," the mother says, "your little sister doesn't realize that pulling hair hurts."

A short while later, there's more crying, and the mother goes to investigate.

This time the sister is bawling and her brother says,

"She knows now."

"Be brave. Do not pray for the hard thing to go away. But pray for a Bravery to come that's bigger than the hard thing."

- Ann Voskamp