Quotes from Carolyne Aarsen

I love making up stories. I love getting lost in other worlds and being with other characters. I love the way I think I'm in control and then the characters and stories take on a life of their own. I love how I can incorporate my own faith into the stories I write. Writing is both discovery and creating and with each book I do that. Discover and create. It can be an adventure some days, a nightmare others. I also like that I can do this wearing ugly clothes.

much to leave us where we are. So, he uses what happens to us to always, always draw us to him.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; / Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

The one thing he had learned living with Dana was that enough was never enough. There was always another thing, one more toy, one more adventure, and they were always just out of reach until they weren't. And then there would be the next thing.

You have to take care of your heart. But at what cost?

None of us deserve the forgiveness we've been given, either by people or by God. I have to forgive you.

She couldn't let him get close. He would let her down. She knew it. And when that happened, she would be worse off than before. Better to keep her heart closed, safe. Guarded.

She knew only that she felt better doing something instead of sitting back, a helpless David facing down an indifferent Goliath.

she wondered what she had done to deserve the loneliness that seemed to surround her.

Be careful. Guard your heart. No one else is going to take care of you.

Dear Lord, we know that You are a Father and that you love your Son. [...] We know how deep Your love is, that You know if even a hair falls from our head. Lord, we plead with You for this child. Be with the doctors that will take care of him. [...] Keep him in Your care, Lord, we pray. Keep him healthy. Let us enjoy him again. Amen.

We are so blessed with such good medic al care here that we often take it for granted. I should know. The patients I had today were hardly models of patience.