The Story Keeper

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

no matter how many wrong choices we’ve made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The

Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the one that does.

All things pass, suga’ pea. All the things a this worl’ got a time for bornin’ and time for dyin’, and a time for troublin’ and a time for restin’. Ssshhh

The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They’d

It’s an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do.” “I

Hardship finds its way into every life. It’s just much easier to see our own than other people’s. Hannah

no matter how many wrong choices we’ve made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.

feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading. But

The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.

She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the one that does.

Hardship finds its way into every life. It’s just much easier to see our own than other people’s.

We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.

George Vida braced his hands on the table before taking his seat, his gaze strafing the room with the discernment of a leathery old goat sniffing for something to nibble on.