15 Quotes by Sara Hagerty

In that moment , my choice is to coach and teach or to circle around, to wrap her up in the safety of love.

Jesus is big in my small, unseen moments. Glorious monotony. He came for these very days.

Fear loses oxygen when every moment suspends itself under the purpose of bringing Him glory, of knowing His name and His nature.

I could spend most days looking for the golden moment ahead, when the gold is already in front of me. Available for every messy minute.

I once saw ” radical” as selling everything I owned or starting a ministry or adopting children from across the ocean. These days I am redefining radical. I’m realizing that radical is sustained worship of God, against the grain of the world’s distractions. It’s staying in the game, looking at Him when no one is looking or applauding, or promoting us for it. Keeping my heart hungry for God in the middle minutes is radical.

My figurative position of confidence before Him, as a daughter in whom He delighted, was one long exhalation of relief. I didn’t earn this position; I inherited it, and that made my safety all the more secure, no matter His response. The ability He gave me to ask started, first, with Him. From this angle, how could I not ask?

She’s tapping into the deepest cry of the human heart, the heart that can preach a sermon on God’s love one moment and flog itself in private over a single mistake the next. We all struggle to believe His delight. Might this be one of the greatest barriers to our communion with God – believing that the one who made us barely likes us, the one we assume finds us barely tolerable?

If my chief end as a mother is anything less than knowing Him and carrying His glory in my life, I will walk through these years empty.

Too often we try to avoid that scary place where we love so deep, so much, our hearts could break. But without the bitterness, we would never appreciate the sweetness.