Quotes about Support

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

Whenever you feel alone, rejected, or misunderstood, stand your situation up next to David's. The boy had as pure a heart as humanly possible, and his own family blasted him. Ouch. I don't want to minimize your hurts, but in David you can certainly find someone who has been there, done that.

Sometimes all you could do for the suffering was to make sure they knew someone was suffering right there with them. Someone who had also felt stricken, and smitten, and afflicted.

I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it's the death of you.

Because showing requires going. It assumes presence. Accompaniment. I can send you somewhere and not go with you, but how can I show you something without being present?

Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?

Assuredly, I will set you free and care for you. Assuredly, I will intercede for you. Jeremiah 15:11

It is the Lord your God who goes with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6

In fact, the absence of appropriate grief after loss may be an indicator of another kind of serious stronghold.

Godly accountability is never codependency.