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I've told my kids for years that God doesn't make mistakes," writes Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Grammy award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman. "Would I believe it now, when my whole world as I knew it came to an end?" Covering her courtship and marriage to Steven Curtis... read more
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- Maria: Add a description of this character.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
- Emily Chapman
- Caleb
- Will Franklin
- Tanner
- Shaoey
- Lori
- Geoff
- Dr. Lois
- Karen
- Julia
- David Trask
- Terri
- Mary Beth
- Herbie
- Jim
- Hope
- Hudson
- Stevey Joy
- Alex
- Melissa
- Jan Moore
- Judy
- Rachel
- Bethany
- Daniel
- Chuck E. Cheese
- Greg
- Coley
- Carrie
- Ashley
- Reggie
- Ruthy
- Phil Collins
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“I have found that even during those times when the path is darkest, He leaves little bits of evidence all along the way - bread crumbs of grace - that can give me what I need to take the next step. But I can only find them if I choose to SEE.”
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“The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.”
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“Hope waits but does not sit. It strains with eager anticipation to see what may be coming on the horizon. Hope does not pacify; it does not make us docile and mediocre. Instead, it draws us to greater risk and perserverence.”
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“The only analogy I can come up with is this: it's like God is an abstract artist...and when you're real close to a painting like this, it's hard to focus, it's blurred, and you can't see what's going on. You have to walk really far back, and then the whole painting comes into focus and you can see what the artist was doing. That's what this experience is like for us. We're just really, really close to this mess...but I think the farther we get away from it in time, the more we're going to see the picture come into focus.”
Caleb Chapman
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What I've found is that it's in the most unlikely times and places of hurt and chaos that God gives us a profound sense of His presence and the real light of His hope in the dark places.
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It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
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I have found that even during those times when the path is darkest, He leaves little bits of evidence all along the way-bread crumbs of grace-that can give me what I need to take the next step. But I can only find them if I choose to SEE.
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May this be your experience; may you feel that the Hand which inflicts the wound supplies the balm, and that He who has emptied your heart has filled the void with Himself.
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necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. C. S. Lewis Time stopped.
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A person who lives in faith must proceed on incomplete evidence, trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. Philip Yancey
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Christianity doesn't deny the reality of suffering and evil. ... Our hope ... is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering. Brennan Manning
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Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream. Larry Crabb
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is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. William Barclay On
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We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. C. S. Lewis
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The sky was a bright, springtime blue that day.
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- Mary Beth Chapman (Author)
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- Ellen Vaughn (Contributor)
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- Dewey: 270.092
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