The thing most about-to-marry girls want to hear is how to prevent the mistakes their parents and everyone else in the world have made.

Notes from a conversation with Sandra McCracken and Kenny Meeks

We can be assured that God’s love indeed means that all will be well, but here and now this truth must be held in faith rather than full understanding. Julian of Norwich

Beauty and brokenness are a package deal. If I live only in beauty, I live in denial. If I live only in brokenness, I live in despair. Beauty in the midst of brokenness is the cup of cold water, the hint of hope that there is more to come.