Melanie Shankle Quotes

#1. Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.

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#2. Motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.

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#3. Sometimes the things that make sense in light of eternity don't make sense while we're still walking it out here on earth. Yet we will trust him; yet we will praise him.

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#4. Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.

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#5. But at the end of it all, you're two people God has joined to journey through life together. For better or for worse. In hunting season and in health.

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#6. Friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. AUTHOR UNKNOWN

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#7. You hear so many people talk about finding their soul mates only in relation to who they marry, but I think that, as women, our real soul mates are often found when we recognize some version of ourselves in someone else.

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#8. In short, I was like Ron Burgundy and in a glass case of emotion.

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#9. After sixteen years of being married, I can safely say that marriage tends to amplify whatever junk is in your life.

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#10. Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ELIZABETH GILBERT

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#11. But ultimately we attempted to find some middle ground because at the end of the day we love each other in spite of all our many and vast differences.

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#12. Not one thing we've done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn't looking for perfection. He's looking for humble hearts that know we are nothing without his lavish grace.

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#13. And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

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#14. Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.

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#15. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. JANE AUSTEN

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#16. It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.

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#17. But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.

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#18. I believe there is no greater act of marital love or martyrdom than attending an event involving your spouse's family without your spouse in attendance.

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#19. Because that's what friends do. They speak the truth when you've lost your way, pick you up and brush you off , tell you that you're going to make it to the other side, and cheer you on until you get there.

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#20. When Perry and I walked into the hospital waiting room and I saw her sitting there, I began to cry, because that's what friendship looks like: knowing your friend better than she knows herself and being there to hold her hand while her heart breaks.

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#21. Sometimes God brings relationships to an end as a way to move us along to where he has called us to go.

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#22. Friends are God's way of apologizing for your relatives.

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