Every place I've held too tightly to, God has pried my fingers loose. He wisely stripped away the illusions I clung to for my sense of identity and safety, until all that was left was God. Each lesson in letting go helped me to step deeper into faith.
My wish as a child was to have the kind of faith my grandmother had. Where life has brought me today is the answered prayer of a child who desired something she didn't understand, but nevertheless, wanted it with her whole heart...
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