When we see the greatness of God in evenour very darkest moments, then we can be free. “Even the crappiest crap we go through glorifies God,” Amber likes to say, in her Amber way. “God makes beauty from ashes, and the devil hates when He does that.

Sometimes,” Shearl said, “people need to be reminded that God is real.

What makes God real for anyone is faith.

You don’t have to die and go to heaven. All you have to do to be in God’s presence is choose Him. All you have to do is believe.