Quotes from Sharon Jaynes

My body is the temple of God, and I need to take better care of it. I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.

Forgiveness is not • saying that what the person did was not wrong • absolving the person from responsibility for their actions • denying that the wrong occurred • pretending the abuse did not happen Forgiveness is • letting go of your need for revenge • cutting the person loose • refusing to let bitterness and hatred rule your life • leaving the past behind by not allowing it to control your actions or emotions

Henry Blackaby challenges us, "When God invites you to join Him in His work, He has assigned a God-sized assignment for you. You will realize that you cannot do it on your own. If God doesn't help you, you will fail. This is the crisis point where many decide not to follow what they sense God is leading them to do. Then they wonder why they do not experience God's presence and activity the way other Christians do."1

Our words can make or break a marriage, paralyze or propel a friend, sew together or tear apart a relationship, build up or bury a dream, curse God or confess Christ. With our tongues we defend or destroy, heal or kill, cheer or churn. And we, as women, seem to be quite talented at deciding when and where to wield this tiny sword.

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

Be encouraged, my friend. If you are willing to use your words as an instrument of beauty, He is more than able to supply the power to do so.

Like an artist who sees the finished work in his mind's eye, God saw your unformed substance and then began to fashion you from head to toe. He made no mistakes but planned each detail of your being. He is the masterful Potter who formed you and shaped your unique features. You are one of a kind.

Your story is a divine weapon that has the power to defeat the devil.

When we measure our worth by the approval of others, we are only as valuable as our last compliment or accomplishment.

God has placed us in a body. He called us the body of Christ because we are dependent on each other to function well, to love well, to struggle well.

Like the spine of a good book, scars, by their very nature, imply there's a story to tell. They represent a wrinkle in time in which a person's life is changed forever, and they serve as permanent reminders of an incident that, in one way or another, has made a lasting impression on one's life.

Every individual believes deep down that he or she has a greater capacity for success than they are currently experiencing.

While your husband cannot turn off the world's noise, you can pray he will tune in to what is helpful and tune out what is harmful. You can pray that he will raise his spiritual antennae to detect the frequency of God's voice in his inner man.

Alguien dijo una vez "Un amigo escucha la melodía en mi corazón y me la canta cuando mi memoria falla".

Redención significa que el dolor ha sido tratado y cambiado tan radicalmente que no sólo pierde la capacidad de hacernos daño, sino que también obtiene el poder para hacer algo bueno"1.

I am so thankful He sees our potential among the ruins and chooses to reignite our flame when the harsh winds of life try to extinguish our fire or the pressures of this world seem to snuff out our dreams.

The closest communion with God comes, I believe, through the sacrament of tears. Just as grapes are crushed to make wine and grain to make bread, so the elements of this sacrament come from the crushing experiences of life. —Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul