“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.” PeopleThinkingWayBodySpiritFoodCookingPreparingFeedingNourishmentFragilityPreparing Food Author:Shauna Niequist
“Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.” PeopleKnowsMatterHomeHappensNightHouseWaterSecretTeamMiddleLove YouCryTerribleAnd LoveAskingNo Matter WhatGlassesFlatsTireMiddle Of The NightFlat TiresHome Team Author:Shauna Niequist
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.” PeopleMatterEnoughWorryFiguresAnxietyBreathsMy FriendshipMatter Of Time Author:Shauna Niequist
“I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I'm coming to believe it's in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveRealStoriesHandsRunningLyingValuesSpaceOur LivesPrayingOne DayOffersTablesHumbleAccomplishBreadLife ChangingI Want YouPacksSoupReal BeautyHand Holding Author:Shauna Niequist
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.” PeopleWayFeelsMindSoulMomentsSpiritualNightWaterBreakHappenedMiddleHavensSonTablesMy SoulMy SonShoreMiddle Of The Night Book:Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way Source: Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
“Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.” PeopleOpportunityBehalfRemindingWho God Is Author:Shauna Niequist
“...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.” PeopleI CanCan DoWalksOffersMess Book:Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes Source: Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes