Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.
GLENNON DOYLELove is kind, right? It’s not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.
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We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.
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When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
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I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I’m the opposite of it.
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The Internet is neither good nor bad. It’s neutral – it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it.
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Nothing separates a woman or a family from God’s love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.
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Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.
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The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else’s permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, ‘Do you ‘like’ me?’
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I’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
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When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.
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You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.
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I’ve never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.
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I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.
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I don’t think that I’m broken at all. I no longer think that I’m a mess. I just think I’m a deeply feeling person in a messy world.
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A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form, safe in the traditional meaning of the word. Because living safely means dying without too many regrets. That is safe.
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Often, we need to ignore the words people say and attend to their underlying, urgent, life or death questions: Am I valuable? Am I loved? The great thing is that the answer is easy: Yes! The answer is always yes. We don’t have to think too hard.
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