Our whole lives are going to be filled with challenges, and our job is to keep growing and seeking after what God has next for us.

Don’t get stuck thinking you don’t matter or you’re not important enough. I know for people like us who come from lowly backgrounds, we all too often accept our place at the bottom and think that’s where we belong. But that’s just not true. God didn’t create some people to be better than others. He created everyone to have equal value.

You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.

And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.

You're safe now.

Her face a mask of fury and determination.

But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.

She smiled, and her smile was filled with all of the sweetness and forgiveness that she offered so freely - and that he didn't deserve. But maybe, as with God, it was time to finally stop condemning himself and accept the gift.

Courage can be displayed in many forms, my lord,' I said gently. 'Sometimes it's evident in the knight charging forward with the lance on his steed. But perhaps it can also take the form of a head bowed before the enemy.