I was reading a good book today and this quote caught my attention. I think it's very relevant for my situation here.
"Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much."
-Shauna Niequist
I also really liked her ideas on grace.
"If arithmetic is numbers, and if algebra is numbers and letters, then grace is numbers, letters, sounds, and tears, feelings and dreams. Grace is smashing the calculator, and using all the broken buttons and pieces to make a mosaic.
Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever. It's the moment you feel as precious and handmade as every star, when you feel, finally, at home for the very first time.
Grace is when you finally stop keeping score and when you realize that God never was, that his game is a different one entirely. Grace is when the silence is so complete that you can hear your own heartbeat, and right inside your ribs, God's beating heart, too."
-Shauna Niequist
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