4 Quotes by Joan Ball

... some of the most significant moments of growth, change, and transformation I've experienced were born in times of challenge and difficulty. This leaves me with a choice: I can fight the natural order of things, crying "Why God? Why?" or I can learn to go with the flow.

Dear God, thank you for all that you have given me. For my family, for my job. For our beautiful home. For the grace of knowing you. Please guide my steps, now and always. Increase my faith. Change me. Transform me. Make me something new. Give me wisdom and understanding that I might do whatever it is you have for me to do.

Self-protection by bravado is a hard habit to break.

... we had to let it go. We had to be willing to lose it all, even if it came to foreclosing on our house, moving into a rental apartment, and starting over. God was not just asking us for a commitment, we were being called to complete, ego-busting surrender.