24 Quotes by Julie Lessman

I love you, Bram,” she’d said, just like she’d said a million times before. Only this time, the declaration came from the lips of a woman, unnerving him all the more. “I love you too, Meg,” he whispered, the words rising in the air like the steam drifting skyward, as out of reach as his dreams to always be there for one lost little girl. He exhaled a silent sigh. “More than you’ll ever know.

Yes, I mean pray. As believers, it’s the single most important tool we have outside of God’s grace.

And that is that no matter how much joy or pain we have in this world – and I have experienced both – nothing satisfies the human heart like the love of God.

Pray that God is the most important thing in your life, so much so that hurting him wold hurt you. When that happens, and your choices line up with his, it produces an amazing ripple effect of blessings – in your life, that of your family, and for the man you eventually marry.

I’m still me inside,” she said quietly, “only a little braver, a little happier, and a little more excited about life than ever before.

Her breathing accelerated as she stared, tremors skittering through her limbs at the striking figure he cut, framed in the door. His charcoal suit and cranberry tie, broad shoulders and chiseled chin – every bit as handsome as the night he proposed some twenty-eight years ago. No, more so, she realized, because now the man’s heart was as beautiful as his appearance.