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"The fact that I loved Jesus was beginning to interfere with the plans I once had for my life and certainly with the plans others had for me. My heart had been apprehended by a great love, a love that compelled me to live differently."
"Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room."
"Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own."
"Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought."
"I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy."
"Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world."
"Thankfully, God's plans do not seem to be affected much by my own."
"People tell me I am brave. People tell me I am strong. People tell me good job. Well here is the truth of it. I am really not that brave, I am not really that strong, and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am just doing what God called me to do as a follower of Him. Feed His sheep, do unto the least of His people."
"Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption."
"When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity."
"Jesus called His followers to be a lot of things, but I have yet to find where He warned us to be safe."