I began reading this book about a year ago and I learned a lot about having a quiet heart through it. I am a quiet person, but a quiet person can still have a loud heart. I wrote this quote down in my journal and just came across it again. It still gets me how true this is, of me especially. Fear is never an excuse for disobedience.
"...Satan is not nearly as disappointed at losing me from his kingdom as he is determined to keep me from being effective in God's kingdom. If Satan can't make me fall away from God's grace, he will do everything he can to keep me from fully embracing God's grace. Satan wants me... to be so constantly occupied with what we're not that we never get around to realizing all that God is. Our enemy wants to keep us so consumed with our inadequacies that we never get around to appropriating the love and transforming power God has made available to us through His Son."
Quoted from Having a Mary Spirit by Joanna Weaver
[Mom's two most recent teacups]
