“Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Well, you know how a river moves a mountain.” The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming… — Lisa Wingate River Copy Share Image
“The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else.… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you from thirty years old to thirteen faster than your mother’s voice rebounding up the stairs like a tennis ball… — Lisa Wingate Mother Copy Share Image
“One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations.” — Lisa Wingate Children Copy Share Image
“We are His children, each knit together as we should be. We must go by the name our Father has given us.… — Lisa Wingate Beloved Copy Share Image
“Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell ’em, best to be who you is. What you is deep… — Lisa Wingate Best thing Copy Share Image
“Prayers are answered in ways we don’t choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.” — Lisa Wingate Grace Copy Share Image
“I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you’re plowing a… — Lisa Wingate Future Copy Share Image
“Oh shoot, Imagene, you shouldn't have told them that. Big mouth. "I mean, not that the hotel's not open for business now,… — Lisa Wingate Big mouth Copy Share Image
“That’s how the grievin’ becomes after a time. You’ve tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected,… — Lisa Wingate Bright colors Copy Share Image
“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your… — Lisa Wingate Children Copy Share Image
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it… — Lisa Wingate Cinema Copy Share Image
“...you're going to have to face this. You can't let other people decide your life for you...Other people's judgement doesn't have any… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I understood now that all of us have that place inside that wants to be part of something, that needs the comfort… — Lisa Wingate Friendship Copy Share Image
“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your… — Lisa Wingate Children Copy Share Image
“Hardship finds its way into every life. It’s just much easier to see our own than other people’s.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep… — Lisa Wingate Love Copy Share Image
“There was no other place I loved so well as this one." "Me as well,"... For all the places I've loved, there… — Lisa Wingate Love Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn’t… — Lisa Wingate Christianity Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we… — Lisa Wingate Dance music Copy Share Image
“The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe… — Lisa Wingate Darkness Copy Share Image
“That’s really nice.” I picture my mother and my aunt, a little over four years apart in age, curled up in the… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes… — Lisa Wingate Consequences Copy Share Image
“One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations.… — Lisa Wingate Children Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we… — Lisa Wingate Dance Copy Share Image
“The depth of my love for him, of my need for him poured over me, both painful and sweet, both comforting and… — Lisa Wingate Comforting Copy Share Image
“You know how it is. The storms come and it’s water and wind as far as the eye can see for a… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
