Words of Wisdom Wednesday ~ Shauna Niequist

"But when you’ve faced some kind of death - the loss of someone you loved dearly, the failure of a dream, the fracture of a relationship - that’s when you start understanding the central metaphor. When your life is easy, a lot of the really crucial parts of Christian doctrine and life are nice theories, but you don’t really need them. When, however, death of any kind is staring you in the face, all of a sudden, REBIRTH AND NEW LIFE are very, very important to you.”

"Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is."



"There will, I’m sure, be something that invades this current loveliness. That’s how life is. It won’t be sweet forever. But it won’t be bitter forever either. If everywhere you look these days, it’s wintery, desolate, lonely, practice believing in springtime. It always, always comes, even though on days like today it’s nearly impossible to imagine, ground frozen, trees bare and spiky. NEW LIFE will spring from this same ground. This season will end, and something entirely NEW will follow it.” 

“I believe that God is making all things NEW. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history:  life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.”

~Shauna Niequist