“Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice…Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me…Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” -Psalm 51:8, 10, &12

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” -Kahlil Gibran

“Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days — when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you’re out of options, when the pain is great, and you turn to God alone.” -Rick Warren

“God has blessed me with a heart like His and inside of it are many passions that have been embedded deep down over the years. They will all grow and flourish into beautiful things, but they cannot do it on their own, no. They cannot do it with only my help and watering, no. Only if I am fully immersed in my Lord and when I let Him do the nourishing to my soul, then my heart will be beautiful.” -Summer Breeze

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” -Revelation 21:4

“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” -Proverbs 31:25

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” -1 Corinthians 15:10

Selah.

“Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.” -Psalm 149:3

Dancing is my soul, visible.

“Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.” -Havelock Ellis

“You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.” -Psalm 30:11

My first tattoo.

“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” -Isaiah 52:7My second tattoo.

“God knows how many hairs you have on your head. Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many small birds.” -Luke 12:7

*I use my tattoos and future tattoos as witnessing tools.