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Don’t let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

Lysa TerKeurst

My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.
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Children Goal God Goodness Live Love Raise World
Great love isn’t two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.
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Greatness Love People Perfection Relationship
Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.
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Cry Life Ourselves Reminder Tears Time
Not making a decision is actually a decision. It’s the decision to stay the same.
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Choice Decision Home Stay
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
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Choice God Talk Wisdom Woman
You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.
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Best Children Exact God Hold Mom Possible Quality Version Yourself
We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.
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Break People Shock Surprise World
No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It’s an emptiness only God can fill.
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Empty God Heart Person Position Possession Wound
This life is not about me. It’s about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.
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Fulfill Hands Life Love Way
Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.
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Generosity Love Myself Opportunity World
Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.
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Focus God Wasted Time
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.
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Beautiful Choice Ignorance Offering People Rare
I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I’m not.
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Acceptance Guilty Learning Myself Thankful
God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.
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Feeling God Goodness Life Myself
Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.
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Gift Hope Lost Moments Past Reach Right
Raw emotions – anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment – are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.
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Angry Emotion Frustration Hide Love People

Don’t let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

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