Notes

Chapter 3  Don’t Just Get Over It

1. Stacey Thacker, “When the View from Where You Sit Is Rather Grey,” 29 Lincoln Avenue (blog), April 9, 2014, http://www.29lincolnavenue.com/2014/04/when-the-view-from-where-you-sit-is-rather-grey/. Accessed March 13, 2015.

2A Lexicon: Abridged from Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1891; 1980).

3. See D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John, Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), and Tim Keller, “Truth, Tears, Anger, and Grace (John 11:20-53),” sermon text available in Journal of Biblical Counseling 20 no. 1, http://www.ccef.org/truth-tears-anger-and-grace-john-1120-53.

4. Aundrea’s story is taken from personal conversations and emails with the author. Used by permission.

Chapter 4  Go Ahead and Give Up

1. Emily Freeman, “The Sacred Work of Sitting,” Chatting at the Sky (blog), May 15, 2014, http://www.chattingatthesky.com/2014/05/15/sacred-work-sitting.

2. Holley Gerth, You’re Going to Be Okay: Encouraging Truth Your Heart Needs to Hear, Especially on the Hard Days (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2014), 50–51.

3. Ibid., 54.

4. Theodore Roosevelt, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: History as Literature and Other Essays (New York: Scribner, 1913), 303–4.

5. James Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990), 86.

6. Jeff A. Benner, “Ancient Hebrew Word Meanings,” Ancient Hebrew Research Center, http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/27_eternity.html. Accessed September 10, 2014.

7Strong’s Concordance, “2617a. chesed,” Bible Hub, http://biblehub.com/hebrew/2617a.htm. Accessed September 10, 2014.

8. “Survivor: South Pacific—Immunity Challenge Coconut Conundrum,” YouTube video, 8:16, clip from Survivor: South Pacific, posted by CBS, September 14, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPiwu-VDuA.

9. Beth Moore, The Patriarchs: Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Nashville: Lifeway, 2005), 15.

Chapter 5  Accepting Limitations

1. Tsh Oxenreider, “Pop Goes the Bum Knee,” (in)courage (blog), March 8, 2013, http://www.incourage.me/2013/03/pop-goes-the-bum-knee.html.

2. Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014), 101.

3. Ibid., 102.

4. Max Lucado, You’ll Get through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013), 51.

5. Arthur Gordon, A Touch of Wonder (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1995), 213.

Chapter 6  Light in a Windowless Room

1. Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place (Grand Rapids: Chosen, 2006), 209.

2. Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014), 36.

3. Ibid., 35.

4. Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. “optimism,” accessed February 6, 2015, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=optimism&allowed_in_frame=0.

5. Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994).

6. Ibid.

7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (New York: Harper & Row, 1954), 29.

Chapter 7  Handing Over the Hand-Wringing

1. Robert Boyd Munger, My Heart—Christ’s Home (Madison, WI: InterVarsity Press, 1954), 15–16.

2. Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (New York: Harper Collins, 2009), 52.

Chapter 8  Because We All Need Friends in Low Places

1. Lily Koppel, The Astronaut Wives Club (New York: Grand Central, 2014), 279.

2. Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 20.

3. Lysa TerKeurst, The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2014), 11.

4. Bonhoeffer, Life Together, 21.

Chapter 9  Asking the Right Questions to Become Fit for the Right Purpose

1. S.v. “adapt,” WordNet Dictionary, http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/adapt. Accessed March 15, 2015.

2. Robert Browning, “A Pillar at Sebzevar,” The Works of Robert Browning (Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Ed. Limited, 1994).

Chapter 10  Settling in the Home Where Your Heart Thrives

1. Julie Perkins Cantrell, “Home Filled with Love,” Julie Cantrell (blog), July 7, 2010, https://juliecantrell.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/home-filled-with-love/.

2. Munger, My Heart—Christ’s Home, 26–28.

3. Jean Fleming, Pursue the Intentional Life (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2013), 76.

4. Augustine of Hippo, Sermones 4.1.1., quoted at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Faith.

Conclusion

1. Ann Voskamp, “How Your Life Really Can Change (and What to Do When Change Comes),” A Holy Experience (blog), http://www.aholyexperience.com/2014/07/how-your-life-really-can-change-and-what-to-dowid.