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1. "Holes in socks are sorta like sin, Josh. If you don't tend to them right away when they're small and controllable, they grow with amazing speed." ~ Janette Oke

2. "WAIT to finish my chores that mornin'. I needed to sneak off to my favorite log along the crik bank and find myself some thinkin' time. Too many things had been happening too fast; I was worried that my whole world was about to change. I didn't want it changed. I liked things jest the way they were, but if I" ~ Janette Oke

3. "live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted" ~ Janette Oke

4. "When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya've still got yer memories. Thank God fer this special gift of His that lets ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S'pose there ain't no price one would settle on fer the worth of memories." ~ Janette Oke

5. "God loves you, that He plans for your good, not your hurt. "It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him." ~ Janette Oke

6. "sharing my cozy home with the mice." ~ Janette Oke

7. "You didn't have to be a ma and a pa and four kids to be a family. All you needed was people livin' together and lovin' and helpin' one another. That's what made a family—blood-ties and love-bonds." ~ Janette Oke

8. "Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises." ~ Janette Oke

9. "When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe." ~ Janette Oke

10. "True love is born of experience, not fairy dust." ~ Janette Oke

11. "She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again." ~ Janette Oke

12. "I was acting like a child. Wanting his full attention. His declarations of love. I wanted to be his little princess, I guess. The one he worshiped and adored. Well, life's not like that. And after thinking it through, I actually wouldn't want it to be. We aren't put together in a marriage to stroke each other's ego. Marriage is a partnership. A blending of two lives working together. That's where the commitment comes in. It's a determination of the head - not the heart. No, I shouldn't say it that way. It still involves the heart. It still is based on love, but it's new kind of love. A mature love. One that doesn't ask, "What will you do for me?" but rather "What can I do for you?" or "What can we do for each other?" ~ Janette Oke

13. "Never despise meger beginings!" ~ Janette Oke

14. "Little is much, If love abides" ~ Janette Oke

15. "But If it is to be, or not, That's all in God's hands." ~ Janette Oke

16. "God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good--- and because it's from Him, even much better" ~ Janette Oke

17. "I love him. Have loved him through each of his growing stages. But I do not want him to stay the same. I want him to grow. To mature. To become everything God has in mind for him. To be a man. Accept responsibility. Be a leader...And he will. I have every confidence he will. He's on the right track-your brother. Following the leading of his Lord. I want him to change, but I never want him to leave behind the solid base he has already established for who he is deep inside. But I also want him to build and develop and carefully nurture that inner self. And as that happens, there will be changes." ~ Janette Oke

18. "And just as simply as that, it was over. She was no longer a student in the local town. She was a graduate. An adult. She thought she should feel something. Older.Wiser. But she felt nothing but a strange emptiness. An inner knowledge that she was now on the edge of the nest, ready to try her own wings" ~ Janette Oke

19. "And I have discovered that God had it all planned, even before I had caught on to it." ~ Janette Oke

20. "Only God can bring about the miracle, the rebirth. It is my job to love her, to pray for her, and to leave the rest to Him." ~ Janette Oke

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