It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you ta…

- Melody Carlson

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

- Melody Carlson

To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my h…

- Melody Carlson

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

- Melody Carlson

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard …

- Melody Carlson

I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel…

- Melody Carlson

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

- Melody Carlson

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagin…

- Melody Carlson

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or se…

- Melody Carlson