"The idea of bittersweet is changing the way I live, unraveling and re-weaving the way I understand life. "This is the work I\'m doing now, and the work.
You will find Bittersweet savory reading, indeed.
I\'ve learned that it\'s not something to run away from, as though we could, and that in many cases, Change is a function of God\'s graciousness, not life\'s cruelty." Niequist, a keen observer of life with a lyrical voice, writes with the characteristic warmth and honesty of a dear friend: always engaging, sometimes challenging, but always with a kind heart.
It can show us who we\'ve become, in the worst ways, and also in the best ways.
Change can push us, pull us, rebuke and remake us. "I\'ve learned the Hard way that Change is one of God\'s greatest gifts, and most useful tools.
By that I mean that it\'s incredibly painful, exponentially more so if you fight it, and also that it has the potential to open you up, to open life up, to deliver you right into the palm of God\'s hand, which is where you wanted to be all long, except that you were too busy pushing and pulling your life into exactly what you thought it should be. "This is what I\'ve come to believe about change: it\'s good, in the way that childbirth is good, and heartbreak is good, and failure is good.
Bittersweet is courageous, gutsy, audacious, earthy.
Sweet is nice enough, but bittersweet is beautiful, nuanced, full of depth and complexity.
Bitter is what makes us strong, what forces us to push through, what helps us earn the lines on our faces and the calluses on our hands. "It\'s the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul.
Bittersweet is the idea that in all things there is both something broken and something beautiful, that there is a moment of lightness on even the darkest of nights, a shadow of hope in every heartbreak, and that rejoicing is no less rich even when it contains a splinter of sadness. "The idea of bittersweet is changing the way I live, unraveling and re-weaving the way I understand life
