You ever have one of those moments in time where a funny memory hits you and you can't quit?

Darling, the world’s not really against you. The only thing that’s against you is yourself. There is something beautiful about all scars, whatever nature.

A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it?

It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your life…you give them a piece of you.

They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages.

It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness so simple a phrase like “maybe we should be friends” turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. Not just the imagination.

Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

I feel like everything in my life has led me to you. My choices, my heartbreaks, my regrets. And when we’re together, my past seems worth it.

Because if I had done one thing differently, I might have never met you. It’s crazy because I don’t even know when you became so important to me. It’s like watching a snowstorm.

You see the flakes falling, but you don’t realize how they’re adding up. Then suddenly, your whole lawn is covered. All these little things have added up, and you’re my snowstorm.

God causes things to happen at exactly the right time! Your job is not to figure out when, but to make up your mind that you won’t give up until you cross the finish line and are living in the radical, outrageous blessings of God! The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you’ll have.

Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure everything out, and let God be God in your life.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later, they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them, you think, “Not bad. And then you get to know them and their face just sort of becomes them.

Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful. Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we’re waiting for.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. Today, forget your past, forgive yourself, and begin again. A heartbreak is a blessing from God.

It’s just His way of letting you realize He saved you from the wrong one. Someone once told me that some of us are actually afraid of the dark; we’re scared of what it conceals from us. We’re afraid of having something with the potential to hurt us standing right before our eyes and not registering it as a threat.

People can be like that too. Sometimes, I think that the stars are actually a huge connect-the-dot puzzle, and if we could only find the right pattern in which to connect them, then maybe we could figure out what they’re trying to tell us. And I think that there is a different pattern for every living person, every person that has ever lived, and every person that will ever live.

So in a way, we’re all written into the night sky. And we gaze up at the sky, lying beneath our fears and dreams, and futures, and if we could find the right pattern, we might be able to know where we’re supposed to be. But the night sky is bigger than I can even begin to grasp, so I lay down on the damp summer grass amidst laughter and sips of wine, and I trace my finger along the brightest stars I can find, and I smile.

The stars can keep the burden of knowing where it is that I will end up, because I am happy with where I am right now. When they twinkle, I think they’re winking at me, like they know something I don’t know, but I don’t mind. Sometimes, I like being in the dark, and right now, I don’t mind at all.

Sometimes, we are so busy chasing the sunlight, that we forget that the darkness is chasing us. I am and always will be- the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes.

The dreamer of improbable dreams. Dear best friend, I love you more daily. I wish you could see yourself the way I see you and I wish you could love yourself the way I love you.

And above all, I wish your life is everything you deserve because, in my opinion, you deserve the world. I will stand by you forever. My heart will always belong to you.

How do you look at someone you love and tell yourself it’s time to walk away? Yes, there are people greater than her. There are people who are more attractive, more intelligent, more caring, and more fortunate.

That’s life- full of temptations. But don’t be deceived by those things. Because didn’t you ever realize that there are people who are also greater than you?

Yet she chose you. You are loved. You are valuable.

You are crafted with beauty and purpose. I treasure you and this world needs you. There is no one like you.

You don’t need to look like the rest, or talk like the rest, or be like the rest. There is no truth in the lie that you don’t mater. The world needs you as you are.

You are loved and you were put here for a reason. You were not an accident. You are not a mistake.

Dear future husband, I hope our love is the kind that I don’t even have to think about. I hope I never have to convince myself to love any certain part of you because I hope it all comes naturally. I hope our love is the kind that is quiet on the outside, but loud on the inside.

I want to love you like the space between lightning and thunder- electrified and alive, but silent and knowing. And I want you to love me like clouds love the rain. You’re going to have to let me go on my own sometimes, but I will always come back and we will always be two parts of the same thing.