Just because you have prepared for something doesn’t mean you don’t still have to go through it.
You really can trust the Spirit of God in another person — at the very least, consider the consequence when you don't....
Most of the time, we are operating out of how we prefer to engage the world…as opposed to how someone else prefers to.
It is really difficult to not always measure things in the terms of progress — what is wrong with contentment or simple existence?
