“Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)” — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
“It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
“When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.” — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us. — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves. — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
“The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
“We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.” — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
“To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.” — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is. — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
“We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
“Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them.… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it. — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
“We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share
