If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.

You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.

Sometimes God pulls us away from normal just long enough to begin something great in us.

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

Throughout the years, whenever darkness has touched my life, it has been a strong faith in God and a great network of friends that have carried me through the troubled waters and given me the strength to carry on. Your presence here today is an inspiration to me as it symbolizes the friendship and love we have shared throughout the years.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.