What road are you on?

Ann Voskamp notes that

Sometimes people are so quiet and brave, we forget that they are suffering.

...Because sometimes the road you’re on is more important than the bus waiting out on the road that someone else says you have to take.

...Every child is a message that everything is possible again; your past, your story, this world, it all has another chance.

...Time likes to lie and say dreams have become impossible things.

...There comes a place when your world will go all quiet and the only thing that will be left is the last beat of your own heart.

Be still often enough you learn its beating song before its forever gone.

There are only so many bluing spring skies to inhale.

... If you haven’t ever really decided where you’re going, any road will get you there — it’s only when you know where you want to go, that there’s only One Way.

...Sometimes you get so used to something, you forget that anything is possible.

...Who believes in unseen things, in impossible things, in the things you can’t measure and control and deduce and reduce and wrap up in a reasonably neat and timely package and who in this cynical world remembers how to find Hope?

...“We believe that the unseen hand may be at times assuredly felt by gracious souls.” [Spurgeon]

...Time may have hands on the clock but its arms are too weak to rob anybody of hope, steal anybody’s prayers, destroy anybody’s joy.
So what if Time’s got hands on a clock — it’s God who has His Hands on the universe. Every little thing is going to be okay because God is working good through every little thing.

All that’s happening is just happening to make miracles. There are miracles always unfolding under the impossibles.

Circumstances can go ahead and run out of time — but the courageous refuse to run out of hope.

We can always hope because there is always joy traveling to us down the unexpected roads.

And because the thing is: Hope always has a cost and hope is always worth it, because who wants the cheap and deadened alternative?

Hope fuels the soul to impossible places.

...And when we step outside behind my brother and his bride, you can see the storm moving across the fields, down the road —

and there it is, the two of them standing under it, all of us standing under it:

a complete double rainbow arching like a sign of His promise round everything.