We served. We fought. We brought our egos. We brought our personal agendas and vendettas. We were ruthless. And some of us, I assume, were good people.

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“It would be so much easier if God just handed you the blueprint, wouldn’t it? It would be easier to follow ‘the plan.’ But God is too good for that; too kind. He wants relationship with you too much to hand you a blueprint and let you walk away…So embrace the wildness of your season, the gray areas that litter every step, and learn to listen to the Spirit of God in you. Black and white isn’t always His way. More often than not, His way is through the confusing and the impossible, because that’s where you’re most likely to hold His hand.”

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“Thank you. Thank you, because I know it’s been hard for you. It was hard for you as a young girl having a baby, in Mississippi. No education. No training. No skills. Seventeen, you get pregnant with this baby. Lots of people would have told you to give that baby away. Lots of people would’ve told you to abort that baby. You didn’t do that. I know that was hard. I want you to know that no matter what, I know that you always did the best you knew how to do. And look how it turned out.”

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“The Times says this story was published at the request of the author, which is the way the Times used to sell classified ads…that’s not journalism, that’s clickbait.”

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“You know what temptations are, you know how real they are. Yet I am commanded by God not to move in that direction, but to honor Him, because He wishes to live in this body. So whatever you are battling, here’s what I say to you: invite Him to live within you. That is to be His residence. And then let the One Who occupies that building tell you how to manage it and how to live with it.”

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